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Re: How to implement save_empty on maildir?



* On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 06:21AM +0800 Wu, Yue (vanopen@xxxxxxxxx) muttered:
> On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 11:11:46PM +0200, Rocco Rutte wrote:
> > Removing empty mbox/mmdf files on the contrary is atomic and can be 
> > safely done by mutt.
> 
> What about mbox? I have set up fetchmail and procmail fetch mails via cron, so
> if I'm operating on mbox like deleting/modifying some mails in mutt, and if
> new mails comes now, would some unsafe evens e.g. lost mails happen?

mbox is locked on write

HTH,

Michael
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