On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 12:29 -0400, Mark E. Mallett wrote:
No idea. If I knew what the problem was and when it would happen, I would have fixed it.
Does it detect writing to a zero-length existing file?
Yep.
You might consider being liberal when opening an mbox file, and skipping any blank lines prior to the first "From_", although this might be unsettling to some people.
Maybe.. But it shouldn't happen so there shouldn't be any need to do that.. :) I think a better idea is to just upgrade to 1.0-stable nowadays if someone has this problem.
Kinda funny: I once encountered a UNIX mail utility that would always append messages to mbox files with a leading blank line even if the file was empty (i.e. it would create new mbox files with a leading blank line), but would refuse to open any mbox files that began with a blank line. Dunno how it survived in the wild... I suspect it was some broken interim version, but at any rate I hacked it to keep it from writing the blank line, *and* to skip blank lines when opening up an mbox.
Sounds like first versions of Dovecot ;)