[Dovecot] Simulating UW Snarf...

[Timo Sirainen]

On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 16:42 -0500, Todd Piket wrote:

> The problem with doing this with Dovecot and/or Maildir is, 
> I believe, you must introduce some kind of locking mechanism in 
> /var/mail/%u because the delivery agent and Dovecot may step on each 
> other's toes otherwise.  Since locking is "bad" in maildir this is not 
> ideal.

Dovecot does maildir locking in any case. Even though maildir was
designed to work without locks, in practise it requires them unless
you're just adding new mail.

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