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Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 13:51:24 -0400
From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Recover
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> Gorka, how hard is it to (add a flag to) enable exclusive access so
> that I can run mail or upas/fs over a recoverable link?  I believe
> they open the mail file exclusively only briefly for modifying it,
> so a connection failure can only cause problems at such times (and
> then you can generate errors until the file is closed).

You should just access your mailbox via another protocol
like pop3 or imap.  The way upas/fs uses lock files is just
not safe to use with recover.  If the network is flaky you will
lose your mailbox.

Russ