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Re: converting from qpopper
From: |
Sergey Poznyakoff |
Subject: |
Re: converting from qpopper |
Date: |
Tue, 13 Nov 2001 12:03:15 +0200 |
Quoting Sam Roberts <address@hidden>, who wrote:
> How do MTAs usually deliver mail to the local spool on reception via
> smtp?
<...>
> So, what about real life? What really happens? Don't they have some
> kind of way of dealing with a locked spool?
If I remember right, both mail.local and procmail try to create and
lock a mailbox lock file (usually <spooldir>/<username>.lock), the
same way mailbox/locker.c does. Mail.local additionally applies an
advisory lock to the mailbox itself (via fcntl). If they cannot
acquire the lockfile within a predefined interval, they issue
temporary failure diagnostics. In this case the MTA puts the message
on queue, and reattempts its delivery later, exactly as you have said.
I don't know about other MDA's, though.
Regards,
Sergey
- Re: converting from qpopper, (continued)
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- Re: converting from qpopper, Sergey Poznyakoff, 2001/11/10
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- Re: converting from qpopper, Sergey Poznyakoff, 2001/11/11
- Re: converting from qpopper, Jeff Bailey, 2001/11/11
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