On 8 Apr 1998, James Youngman wrote:

> Mainly delivery.  The problem is that it's all too easy to have a
> locking problem with NFS and get a corrupted mailbox.  If you have a
> one-file-per-message mailbox style, such as nnml (GNUS) or maildir
> (qmail), then the NFS locking is more reliable.  There's a periodic
> discussion of these issues on comp.mail.sendmail.  I think there may
> even be an FAQ entry.

The way sendmail needs to be setup is so that its user locking files are
in /var/spool/mail, thats how mine is setup and it works fine.


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