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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 ?