[Dovecot] pop3_lock_session question

[Timo Sirainen]

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.

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