[Zope-Coders] Re: [ZCM] [ZC] 540/ 4 Comment "Local roles don't work when name of user doesn't match id"

[Toby Dickenson]

On Wednesday 28 Aug 2002 1:37 pm, Jens Vagelpohl wrote:
> MaildropHost uses an external process to check on a specific "spool"
> directory in the file system=20

Yes. That works. It is a shame there is no way to avoid that external spo=
ol=20
directory and process.

> and the MailHost object inside the ZODB
> just formats the messages it receives into the correct file format and
> drops them there. there is no notion about transaction, unless failed
> transactions would actually go and *erase* an already-written spool
> file, which i doubt ;)

It could easily write the file to a temporary directory inside the main=20
transaction body, and then either move the file on commit or delete it on=
=20
abort.....