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Mailbox locking
Authored by: kenahoo on Jan 06, '05 08:09:51PM

Yeah, instead of using AppleScript you can use Perl or a shell script, where you have flock() and lockfile, respectively. Those use the system's 'flock' call, which is what programs that manipulate mailbox files do behind the scenes.



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