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From: louie@haven.umd.edu (Louis Mamakos)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: Why doesn't "dist" use aliases??
Message-ID: <1989Dec14.043413.13647@haven.umd.edu>
Date: 14 Dec 89 04:34:13 GMT
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Reply-To: louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos)
Organization: University of Maryland, Computer Science Center
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The `send' program does take the -alias switch.

On another topic, has anyone ever hacked MH to make it safe for
multiple concurrent processes?  It looks to me that two processes
fiddling with a folder simultaneously will hose each other, since it
seems that no locking is done.

This is the reason that I don't use the slocal program to
automagically distribute mail to folders as it arrives.  How could you
safely modify folders when mail could be asynchronously stuffed into
them?