Cyrus IMAP server

Bron Gondwana brong at fastmail.fm
Thu Oct 21 20:22:23 EDT 2010


On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 01:12:39AM +0100, Jeroen van Meeuwen (Kolab Systems) wrote:
> Bron Gondwana wrote:
> > Actually in Cyrus 2.4 you will find that it allows multiple concurrent pop
> > connections. Each one gets a "snapshot" of the mailbox at the time it
> > connects. All operations are to this snapshot.
> > 
> > This is safe because the namelocking semantics ensure the message files
> > won't be deleted until all open connections are closed, and the snapshot
> > includes uids to let the pop3d find and delete the correct messages.
> > 
> > So you'll be good in 2.4 :)
> > 
> 
> Worth noting and putting in the documentation ;-)

Yeah, I kind of forgot about it.  It was just a side effect of having
decent locking :)

Bron.


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