[Dovecot] 1.0-test21

[Timo Sirainen]

On 22.6.2004, at 14:07, Tom Allison wrote:

> I get to ask a dumb question:
> Can you put a filelock on the mail files while you are handling them 
> to ensure that no one else is messing with them?

mbox locks the mailbox when reading/writing, maildir doesn't.

> I guess the question is then, if you have N emails in folder, then how 
> do you ensure that the other N-1 emails didn't get messed with, or 
> that there aren't now N+m emails in the maildir...

With maildir there's no locks, so mails can come and go anytime. 
Dovecot handles it well.
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