Re: [bug-mailutils] locking mailboxes with imap4d

[Jordi Mallach]

Hi Sergey,

On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 06:10:14PM +0300, Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:
> > In response to a Debian bug report, I'm looking at why imap4d isn't
> > locking the user's mailbox when it initiates a session.
> It does not need to. To be precise, it does lock it, but only when
> it really needs to modify it. Normally, the locking interval is very
> short, so you have little chance to detect the lock file presence. In
> fact, one of the huge advantages of IMAP protocol over POP is that the
> former does not require mailbox locking through the session.

I see. The bug report I'm talking about is
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=350754, reported
against 0.6.1. What you said above dismantles my theory though, so I
don't know if if was a bug fixed somewhere between 0.6.1 and 1.0.

Jordi
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