4 Feb
2009
4 Feb
'09
7:10 p.m.
On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 12:07 -0700, Mark Costlow wrote:
Switch to Maildir and the problem goes away. The issue is that the mbox file is read-locked when the first message is read. And since the POP3 client most likely just keeps reading messages for the entire session, the mbox file kept read-locked all the time. Can't really be fixed without some larger redesign (which is really not worth it).
Point taken.
Does this mean that pop3_lock_session is a NO-OP? Or does it have other implications?
It write-locks the mailbox, so two POP3 sessions can't access it at the same time.