[Alpine-info] Saving messages is incredibly slow in 1.10

[Matt Ackeret]

On Tue, 10 Feb 2009, Mark Crispin wrote:

> Remember that one of the tasks is to fix up problems from random other programs

> that muck with mbox files (and there are a lot of these on UNIX). Worse,

> because of a general lack of control on what is injected into a traditional

> UNIX mailbox, your suggested hack opens a security hole.


That's insulting to call it a hack.  You said they were guaranteed to increase,
I gave a proposed performance improvement.  (Plus, there are lock files and
such on some UNIXes.  I know it's "advisory" on some systems.)