On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote:
> + "Robert J. Adams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> | Is it possible to have two machines accessing the same queue via NFS?
>
> No! Your single copy of qmail-send assumes it is the only entity
> making any changes in the queue (with the exception of qmail-queue,
> which does however follow a specific protocol for inserting new
> messages). Break that assumption, and you're breaking qmail.
>
> You should always have the queue on a local disk anyway, for
> reliability as well as efficiency considerations.
Amen. You can use an NFS filestore for mail drops if you use Maildir, but
definitely not the queue. You'd run a very high risk of corrupting
messages in the queue if you NFS'd it across machines.
jms
