Hello Brian. * Brian Lloyd <brian@zope.com> [2002-04-17 20:29]:
Ok. I'd like to run the mbox thing by Jim to see if he has any
The product now uses a Maildir-style approach to deal with concurrent writes. The creation of the file name uses time(), gethostname() and randint() to hopefully create enough "uniqueness" in the names.
reservations about that (writing to the FS, potential effect on security, etc.)
The flooding problem still is not solved. For production sites it's probably a good idea to turn off the backup to prevent DOS attacks. But for debugging it's a valuable tool.
with MailHost up-to-date). Chris McDonough is nominally in charge of making sure doc updates are taken care of (chrism@zope.com). You can send doc updates (or pointers to them) to him.
Okay, I'll write it if the okay from the BDFL is here ;-) Cheers, Nils -- i.A. Nils Kassube Software Engineering c o m . u n i t G m b H online-schmiede seit 1994 http://www.comunit.de/ mailto:nika@comunit.de Eiffestr. 598 20537 Hamburg | Germany Fon 040 | 21 11 05 25 Fax 040 | 21 11 05 26