Re: Will ELM ever use lockf()?

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From: Chip Salzenberg
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1991 16:06

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According to les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell):
>Personally, I think the "right" solution is to deliver new mail into
>individual files per message ...
>This isn't likely to happen, of course, since the changes to the
>user agents and the transports would have to be syncronized...

The transport work is done.  Smail 3's "appendfile" transport driver
supports a "dir" attribute.  If this attribute is set to a directory
name, each delivered message will be put into a uniquely-named file in
the given directory.
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         When You Never, Ever Want To See It Again [tm]
     Chip Salzenberg   <chip@tct.com>, <uunet!pdn!tct!chip>

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From: chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg)
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Subject: Re: Will ELM ever use lockf()?
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Date: 15 Apr 91 16:06:43 GMT
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