On Apr 8, 2008, at 9:16 AM, Christopher D. Clausen wrote:

David Bear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I seem to distantly recall some discussion about storing maildir
directories on openafs, but I don't remember if it was safe,
discouraged, or otherwise problematic. Any one see problems with
putting maildir in afs?

I've delivered email directly into AFS and it seems to work for a small
number of users.  I understand that problems arise from hosting many
mailboxes and the number of callbacks to clients when files /
directories get updated with new mail.

Do you intend to have an SMTP server write directly to AFS? Or end- user
run clients write downloaded email into AFS?

I ran a optimized-for-afs maildir at my site for a couple years. It was a great improvement over delivering to berkeley-style mailboxes in AFS.

However, I highly recommend deploying a *real* mail solution (e.g. Cyrus), and not deliver mail into AFS or user's home directories.

-rob
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