[OpenAFS] Mail delivery into OpenAFS

Nathan Ward nward@esphion.com
Mon, 07 Jul 2003 14:06:31 +1200


On Sun, 06 Jul 2003 18:55:26 -0700, Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> wrote:
>
>> Maildir works for me because I patched qmail-local.c to rename if it
>> can't link. Perhaps I should check if the new filename exists, and if it
>> does temporarily defer delivery.
>
> Oh, if you don't *really* care about safe mail delivery, locking isn't
> nearly as much of a problem.  :)

Well sure, at present its not safe. Defering the message for later delivery 
however should be.

Or I could check to see the file exists as the name is generated, if it 
does, regenerate..

In qmail, filenames are based on delivery time (AFAIK). Down to .00001 of a 
second. I'd say its more or less "safe". How about I tack a process ID on 
the end of that too. Happy? :P  :)


Or have I missed something.. ?

-- 
Nathan Ward
Esphion Ltd.