Hi all.
I've asked this question on the postfix mailing list (And been knocked back a bit :), but thought I'd ask here anyway, since things appear to be inconclusive so far...
Is anyone curently using AFS volumes as the mail spool for delivering email using postfix or does anyone know any reason why it would be a bad idea to doit? I've searched the web a fair bit & the closest I've come to an answer is Richard Campbells book saying some people are doing it, but no details.
I've already discounted mbox as a bad idea & plan to deliver using maildir, but I have a choice to make. Do I run multiple servers with local filesystems & route to the users destination server using info elsewhere (e.g. an LDAP directory), or do I have several AFS servers each with a portion of the users on them, and distribute the incoming email evenly & rely on AFS so that each server has equal access to each users spool area...
Mail pickup by users would be via imapd or pop3 only... No interactive accounts.
I've already discounted NFS (Although it appears to be the postfix developers favourite) because I just don't trust it (Security wise, although I accept I could jump through lots of hoops to secure it with private VLAN's etc).
I already know about problems with re-authing the delivery agent as well... Not sure how I'd get round that yet, I'm not sure I'd consider IP ACL's to be tight enough... (Or I could just use NFS :)
TIA
Hamish.
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