Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!pdn!tscs!tct!chip From: chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: Will ELM ever use lockf()? Message-ID: <2809CF94.1D1D@tct.com> Date: 15 Apr 91 16:06:43 GMT References: <1991Apr09.160512.1300@chinet.chi.il.us> <1991Apr11.024849.29924@Veritas.COM> <1991Apr11.181909.13503@chinet.chi.il.us> Organization: Teltronics/TCT, Sarasota, FL Lines: 14 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. -- Brand X Industries Custodial, Refurbishing and Containment Service: When You Never, Ever Want To See It Again [tm] Chip Salzenberg ,