From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2007-01-10T01:48:56+09:00
Subject: Re: recommended mailbox parsing library

On Wed, 10 Jan 2007, Martin DeMello wrote:

>
> The following simple count-messages test returned the correct count,
> but replaced my mailbox with a zero-byte file - any idea what I'm
> doing wrong? This is with tmail 0.10.8
>
> require 'tmail'
>
> i = 0
>
> loader = TMail::UNIXMbox.new( 'mailbox' )

at_exit{ loader.close }

> loader.each_port do |port|
> mail = TMail::Mail.new(port)
> i += 1
> puts i
> end
>
> puts i

you may also check to see if 'new' takes a block - not sure if it does.
either way, the mbox can still be truncated if your process is 'kill -9'd.
for that reason i generally impliment a transaction on top of tmail's.

regards.

-a
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