Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/04/19/18:28:23
Hello Jason.
Nice to hear from you, and exceedingly nice to see that you stuck to
maildrop. I reverted to IMAP/SSL to read my mail for a good while
(since I changed offices and my network connectivity improved
considerably), and have had little reason to look into the problems in
more detail.
I have since made a rather dramatic move to the Mac OS X platform (at
least at home), so that also made a difference... :) But I (and most of
my team) are still using Cygwin as the cornerstone of our work
environment, so I'm still paying attention (it's just stuff like this -
the non-critical work bits) that get put aside for a while.
What you mention is true: maildrop is closely associated with maildirs
(and it was due to one of my colleagues, who swears by maildir on any
OS, that I came accross it). I intended to use mutt with maildirs,
including a shared mail archive we keep, but did not get around to it.
Nevertheless, I'll give your patches a look on my PC. :) Thanks a lot. :)
Will you submit them to the maintainers?
R.
On Friday, April 19, 2002, at 06:48 PM, Jason Tishler wrote:
> Rui,
>
> On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 12:45:12AM +0000, Rui Carmo wrote:
>> However, mutt then complains that /var/spool/mail/user is not a valid
>> mbox file, since somewhere along the line, an extra blank line is
>> inserted
>> at the beginning of the mailbox upon creation. Editing it out by hand
>> solves the problem, but is a rather lame fix.
>
> The first attachment solves the above problem.
>
> Unfortunately, I have discovered other problems:
>
> 1. maildrop appears (at least under Cygwin) to not quite respect
> dotlocking and actually removes the lock file created by other
> processes! The second attachment "solves" this problem.
>
> 2. maildrop appears to lock in a different order (i.e., dotlock then
> fcntl()) than mutt (and procmail) (i.e., fcntl() then dotlock) so I'm
> concerned about race conditions.
>
> 3. maildrop causes Cygwin to spin while another process has locked a
> mbox
> via fcntl(F_SETLK). If interested, see the third attachment for
> details.
>
> I'm interested in getting Cygwin maildrop to work because it is much
> easier to build (and maintain) than procmail. Unfortunately, I'm
> getting
> the impression that maildrop is used more for maildirs than for
> mboxes...
>
> Thanks,
> Jason
>
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