Change default MTA was Re: Fedora Core 2 wishlists

[Nils O. Selåsdal]

On Mon, 2003-12-15 at 15:26, Nalin Dahyabhai wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 03:31:47PM -0800, Gordon Messmer wrote:
> > In any case, your evidence is anecdotal, not proof.  It doesn't mirror 
> > my own experience.  I've moved two companies to Maildir style delivery. 
> > Both were previously using Slackware/Linux 2.0/sendmail/procmail. 
> > This combination was not only corrupting mailboxes, but corrupting the 
> > entire file system that the spools were on. (Damn Linux 2.0... Damn it 
> > to hell)
> 
> A quick note: mailbox corruption is frequently caused by programs
> disagreeing on how to properly lock a mailbox file.  This is problematic
> because we currently have two methods for locking files, and they don't
> interoperate.  More on that in fcntl(2), flock(2), lockf(3), and the
> kernel's Documentation/locks.txt file.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Nalin
Is it _that_ hard changing applications to use lockf (or fcntl) ?
To me it sounds like one could go through all mail applications in
fedora and just make them use one of them (I'm guessing there is more to
it that that...). Or is the problem more for 3.party apps/not shipped
with fedora ?

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Nils Olav Selåsdal
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