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-GNU mailutils NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2021-02-13
+GNU mailutils NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2021-05-01
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Please send mailutils bug reports to <bug-mailutils@gnu.org>.
+Version 3.12.90 (git)
+
+* Improved mailbox locking
+
+This fixes several bugs.
+
+* Changes in the 'locking' configuration statement.
+
+New statement 'type' configures the type of locking to use. Possible
+values are: 'default', 'dotlock', 'external', 'kernel', and 'null'.
+
+New statement 'pid-check' instructs mailutils to check if the PID of
+the process owning the lock still exists in the process table. If it
+doesn't the lock is considered stale and is removed.
+
+The 'flags' statement is deprecated. If used, an error message is
+issued along with a suggestion on what statement to use instead:
+
+ Flag Statement to use
+ --------+-------------------
+ E type external
+ R retry-count N
+ T expire-timeout N
+ P pid-check true
+
+The 'retry-timeout' statement is a misnomer and is therefore
+deprecated. Use 'retry-sleep' instead.
+
+
Version 3.12, 2021-02-13
* Fix expunging of mailboxes in mbox and dotmail format in a read-only directory

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