[issue7359] mailbox cannot modify mailboxes in system mail spool

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:

The same remark as in issue7360, that is it is not robust at all to
overwrite the file rather than doing an atomic rename from a temporary
file. The only possible exception would be if you only /append/ to the
mbox file (and that's assuming all mailbox-reading software you use be
able to deal with a partially written message at the end of an mbox file).

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nosy: +akuchling, pitrou
priority:  -> normal
versions: +Python 2.7, Python 3.2

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