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Re: best way to send "raw" email (files)?

From: Victor Duchovni (Victor.Duchovnimorganstanley.com)
Date: Tue Oct 12 2010 - 16:34:41 CDT


On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 04:49:39PM +0200, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:

>> How do you know when the input file is complete? You should not
>> start submission of a file that is still being written to.
>
> I wanted to check with lsof if it's still opened or not.
>

lsof does not know about other NFS clients. The NFS-safe way of
creating mail messages is the "maildir" delivery protocol, which
the client system must follow to ensure robust en-queueing of
mail.

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