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From: fletcher@cs.utexas.edu (Fletcher Mattox)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mush
Subject: Re: truncated files?
Message-ID: <420@ai.cs.utexas.edu>
Date: 28 Aug 89 18:15:32 GMT
References: <6744@cs.utexas.edu> <4326@ogccse.ogc.edu> <4434@ogccse.ogc.edu>
Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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In article <4434@ogccse.ogc.edu> argv@sun.UUCP (Dan Heller) writes:
>[ The following was typed by Dan Heller and sent to me for posting because
>  he's having some news problems.  -- Bart ]

>There is still the problem that not all MTAs lock the folder when appending
>mail to it.  

There's not much mush can do in that case.  The MTA is busted.

>Granted, this is more applicatable to older MTAs, but I've
>known some sun sendmail's that don't lock /usr/spool/mail/$USER folders
>as recently as SunOS 3.2.

Actually sendmail isn't involved.  /bin/mail delivers to 
/usr/spool/mail/$USER and the SunOS 3.2 /bin/mail does attempt 
to flock(2) it.

Fletcher