From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/49519 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Matthias Andree Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: maildir in Gnus vs. clock corrections and PID recycling Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 13:33:44 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <20030123123344.GB13246@merlin.emma.line.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1043325185 19519 80.91.224.249 (23 Jan 2003 12:33:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 12:33:05 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18bgXX-00054d-00 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 13:33:04 +0100 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 18bgYV-00063P-00; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 06:34:04 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 23 Jan 2003 06:35:00 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (sclp3.sclp.com [66.230.238.2]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id GAA01511 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 06:34:50 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 11971 invoked by alias); 23 Jan 2003 12:33:49 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 11966 invoked from network); 23 Jan 2003 12:33:49 -0000 Original-Received: from pd9e1eb0d.dip.t-dialin.net (HELO m2a2.dyndns.org) (postfix@217.225.235.13) by 66.230.238.6 with SMTP; 23 Jan 2003 12:33:49 -0000 Original-Received: by merlin.emma.line.org (Postfix, from userid 500) id C6ED67CBA5; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 13:33:44 +0100 (CET) Original-To: ding@gnus.org Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:49519 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:49519 On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Paul Jarc wrote: > I was wrong. nnmaildir will raise an error if the file already > exists. Good, so it won't wreak havoc. > After reading more in the qmail archives, I think I'll do what > qmail-pop3d does: leave message in new/ (so that attempted deliveries > with the same filename will fail) until the second is over. Given that I commonly see machines reset their clocks by one second, "until the file is two seconds old" might be more appropriate, if I may suggest so. -- Matthias Andree