From: marka@pobox.com (Mark Alexander)
Subject: [sup-talk] Possible problem with maildir ID generation
Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 13:24:10 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a412e2a70905041024k3b2469e6v5e13d00177a23550@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090504165224.GA15815@cabinet.hsd1.ma.comcast.net>
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Marc Hartstein
<marc.hartstein at alum.vassar.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 09:10:23AM -0700, William Morgan wrote:
>> I think the collisions we are seeing are due to timestamp granularity.
>> A little research suggests that e.g. ext2fs ctimes are 1-second
>> granular. It seems quite easy to get more than one email per second.
>
> It does, but as I mentioned somewhere in that email, the reference
> implementation of maildir (qmail) says that it will only deliver one
> message per second. ?However, I definitely concede that relying on this
> behavior would be setting things up for something to go wrong down the
> line.
Just a data point: in my setup (postfix+procmail) I'm seeing multiple messages
being delivered to the same maildir in the same second. That was what
motivated my patch.
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-16 22:05 Mark Alexander
2009-04-21 14:00 ` William Morgan
2009-04-21 15:33 ` Mark Alexander
[not found] ` <20090428191822.GB10581@cabinet.hsd1.ma.comcast.net>
2009-04-28 23:29 ` Mark Alexander
2009-04-29 22:31 ` William Morgan
2009-04-29 22:39 ` William Morgan
[not found] ` <20090429233820.GA14143@cabinet.hsd1.ma.comcast.net>
2009-05-04 16:10 ` William Morgan
[not found] ` <20090504165224.GA15815@cabinet.hsd1.ma.comcast.net>
2009-05-04 17:24 ` Mark Alexander [this message]
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