Linux does nfs serving with busted file locking. You can easily get
messages inserted inside eachother in inboxes. However, if you have an
nfs server based on Sun or Network Appliance, then you are ok.
We have a Sun based NFS server exporting to several POP servers and a
couple of SMTP servers. Does great.
-Sincerely,
----Patrick
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On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Pat Hennessy wrote:
>
>
> On 8 Apr 1998, James Youngman wrote:
>
> > >>>>> "Pat" == Pat Hennessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > Pat> I'm willing to bet money that you could use nfs to mirror your
> > Pat> mail directory (/var/spool/mail and their home directories if
> > Pat> you have people wanting to telnet in and use pine or something)
> >
> > Mail delivery to NFS-mounted volumes is a risky business and wisely
> > widely avoided.
> >
> just delivery or retrieval too??
> like lets say you have your mail ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> and mywork.com has a mx record for a machine handles all the delivery
> using sendmail (maybe smtp.mywork.com)
>
> now could we have two other machines that nfs mount the mail directory
> from smtp.mywork.com and mail.mywork.com points to these 2 machines which
> only do pop or imap?
>
> I thought nfs did appropriate file locking and stuff. Is there another
> alternative (besides a big/expensive unix machine)?
>
> pat
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