7 messages in net.sourceforge.lists.courier-usersRe: [courier-users] Corrupt courierim...
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Kris KelleyMar 21, 2002 5:00 pm 
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Subject:Re: [courier-users] Corrupt courierimapuiddb fileActions...
From:Kris Kelley (sku@simdesk.com)
Date:Mar 21, 2002 5:32:46 pm
List:net.sourceforge.lists.courier-users

Today a user reported to me that some of his messages were being listed out of chronological order. When I checked his mail directories, I discovered this little snippet in the courierimapuiddb folder for his inbox...

I should add that this person's mail account sits on an NFS share that is accessed by two email servers, both running Courier IMAP 1.3.7.

This gets me wondering. I assume that Courier IMAP takes steps to ensure that two IMAP servers simultanously trying to regenerate the courierimapuid doesn't result in a munged file, but what prevents one server from regenerating the file while the user is accessing the folder through another server?

If this has been addressed before, feel free to point me at what I need to read. The mailing list archives really need a search engine!

---Kris Kelley