On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Paul Fontenot wrote:
> > Pat> I'm willing to bet money that you could use nfs to mirror your
> > Pat> mail directory (/var/spool/mail and their home directories if
> > Pat> you have people wanting to telnet in and use pine or something)
> >
> > Mail delivery to NFS-mounted volumes is a risky business and wisely
> > widely avoided.
>
> Besides, the exchange server is going to put your mail into MMF format and
> Pine can't read that.
>
Well i thought we were talking about setting up multiple linux machines to
handle mail for alot of users. Where people would be pulling their mail
off of a pop or imap server. Exchange runs in linux?? Why would exchange
be reading someones /var/spool/mail dir?? No one said that the users had
to login to check there mail. pop accounts can be made and you can use
/bin/false or /dev/null for the shell in the passwd file. Although i
thought that with hundreds of users some might desire to use pine. Hell i
do. I haven't found anything better then my pine & procmail combination.
There is no way in hell i'd be on this mailing list if i could filter mail
the way i do. At my school (small community college), there are ushally
at least 70 people logged into the mail server checking their mail and
only a handfull use pop or imap (like between 3 and 8). I think not all
the faculty use mail neither do all of the students (its a pretty small
school). But the majority of the people use pine.
pat.
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