venbian: > You ruled out cloud solutions? Someone: > Yes. Do any Postfix administrators with busy systems rely on NFS?
On 6/12/19 8:12 pm, Wietse Venema wrote: > It can be done, provided that one does not do stupid things like > logging into the NFS server and messing with files that an NFS > client is actively using. That will result in stale NFS handles and > other pain. Postfix has quite a few workarounds for NFS, as described > in http://www.postfix.org/NFS_README.html P.V.Anthony: > Would it be a better idea to leave postfix as is and move the mail > storage to NFS. Like Dovecot with maildir on NFS. Best of both worlds. Postfix versus Dovecot is orthogonal to whether one uses NFS. It's not like one is somehow immune to problems that the other is not. See http://www.postfix.org/NFS_README.html for considerations what NFS means for: - The Postfix mail queue. - Postfix delivery to mailbox/maildir files. Wietse
