Re: [Exim] Washington mbx again

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Author: Tom Samplonius
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To: Malcolm Beattie
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Washington mbx again
On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Malcolm Beattie wrote:

> 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


Yes, but shouldn't Exim be using the c-client library to manage access
to MBX mailboxes? I know that is a lot of overhead, but it guarrentees
that it works right. See my other e-mail with a quote from Marc Cripin
about various MBX issues.

Tom