Re: [Exim] Washington mbx again

Philip Hazel writes:
> On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Tom Samplonius wrote:
>
> > MBX is not propietary. It is a indexed version of mbox.
>
> And is supported by Exim. However, you can't use its native locking
> rules (which permit shared access to mailboxes) if the file is
> NFS-mounted.

You can't even use it on a local filesystem at the moment because
the locking isn't quite right. Ray Miller has done enough tests to
determine that the locking schemes are slightly imcompatible but we
haven't yet determined a way of fixing it. The contortions that the
cclient mbx driver goes through to do its locking are, er. Well.
Indescribable is probably the safest word to use.

--Malcolm

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Malcolm Beattie <mbeattie@???>
Unix Systems Programmer
Oxford University Computing Services