>Just be aware that storing mail folders on NFS servers is widely >regarded as a bad idea because of locking issues.thanks and agreed upon the >technical reason. but you know we have almost 70 users that have configured the Outlook to save their emails on a network drive "Z", which is a share folder on a windows 2003 file server, and we are so happy with it(no issue faced yet regarding network based setup) >If you use maildir as >the storage format you should be OK you mean instead of Evo default(mbox) if I use 'maildir' then its(network based storage) save ? Is there any benefit of using 'mbox' over 'maildir' ?
Regards Muhammad Sharfuddin --- On Fri, 4/10/09, Patrick O'Callaghan <[email protected]> wrote: From: Patrick O'Callaghan <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Evolution] how to setup a different path of '.evolution' directory To: [email protected] Date: Friday, April 10, 2009, 10:10 AM On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 12:09 -0400, Reid Thompson wrote: > Muhammad Sharfuddin wrote: > > I dont want to save the emails in the '.evolution' directory of every user's home directory > > > > We have an NFS server with /evo exported, under /evo there are directories for every user. > > > > on each client machine /evo(of nfs server) is mounted under /mails > > > > I want to save the emails/calenders etc under /mails/username directory. > > > > I mean want like the following > > > > /mails/john/.evolution > > > > /mails/ron/.evolution > > > > /mails/james/.evolution > > > > is it possible ? > > > > Regards > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Evolution-list mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list > > something along the lines of... > > shutdown all users evolution > move all users .evolution to .evoloution.hold > for each user > ln -s /mails/john/.evolution /home/john/.evolution > ln -s /mails/ron/.evolution /home/ron/.evolution > ... > for each user > mv .evolution.hold/* /home/$user/.evolution > > or you can use tar rather than renaming and mv'ing.... Just be aware that storing mail folders on NFS servers is widely regarded as a bad idea because of locking issues. If you use maildir as the storage format you should be OK, but otherwise I'd think carefully about this. poc _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
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