Re: manual whitelist modification: concurrent access issue

I'm sorry, I was under the impression that there are 2 sets of each list...

whitelist.txt used by ASK only, and whitelist_local.txt which you can 
manually edit
and is also used by ASK.  This would prevent a conflict in ASK...

I remember reading this in ChangeLog:

White/Ignore and Blacklists can be spread over multiple files. Only the
first one will be written to by ASK but all will be used to match. The sample
config file also includes a "-local" version of each list file suitable for
local editing (prevents conflicts).





At 07:43 PM 2/27/2004, you wrote:


>Sometimes your definitely want to manually add someone in your
>whitelist. I see (at least) two non-anectodical cases:
>
>- you write to someone who may also use ASK, and want to avoid the
>   deadlock.
>
>- you write to someone overbusy/important, and you want to:
>    - not bother him with the confirmation
>    - receive his message as soon as possible
>
>The issue is then obviously: what happens if ASK tries to edit the
>whitelist file at the same time as you ?
>
>The poor solution I use so far is to suspend the mail stream (that
>translates into killing fetchmail for me), edit the whitelist, and
>finally restart the mail stream.
>
>Any better idea ?
>
>
>
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