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Re: [bug-mailutils] POP3d enhancements


From: Alain Magloire
Subject: Re: [bug-mailutils] POP3d enhancements
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 11:13:03 -0400 (EDT)

> 
> Alain Magloire <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > Like to propose a few enhancement of the next version of POP3D
> > 
> > LOGIN-DELAY:
> 
> Great.
> 
> > We could do this by creating a pipe(2) between the child and the parent
> [...]
> 
> Won't it be simpler to keep a DBM database? Each record in the database
> would have the form (username ; timestamp of the last logout). Children
> would be updating it and the master process would be only reading it.
> The locking/concurrency issues will be solved authomatically by the DBM
> library.
> 

maintainance, files that are lying around, i.e. where to create the file
who will delete it, security issues etc ..

Let see how the login-delay with pipe(2) works out and we could
modify it after to use a more complete DBM.

> > EXPIRE:
> 
> Great.
> 
> I'm all for it.

Ok, I'll give a try.

Is the repository branch/tag for 0.4, so I can enable stuff
without interfering with the release ?





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