>>>>> "Pat" == Pat Hennessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Pat> On 8 Apr 1998, James Youngman wrote:
>> Mail delivery to NFS-mounted volumes is a risky business and wisely
>> widely avoided.
Pat> just delivery or retrieval too??
Mainly delivery. The problem is that it's all too easy to have a
locking problem with NFS and get a corrupted mailbox. If you have a
one-file-per-message mailbox style, such as nnml (GNUS) or maildir
(qmail), then the NFS locking is more reliable. There's a periodic
discussion of these issues on comp.mail.sendmail. I think there may
even be an FAQ entry.
Pat> like lets say you have your mail ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and
Pat> mywork.com has a mx record for a machine handles all the
Pat> delivery using sendmail (maybe smtp.mywork.com)
Pat> now could we have two other machines that nfs mount the mail
Pat> directory from smtp.mywork.com and mail.mywork.com points to
Pat> these 2 machines which only do pop or imap?
I'd say that that would be practical.
Pat> I thought nfs did appropriate file locking and stuff. Is there
_NFS_ does, with rpc.lockd. But Linux has no rpc.lockd...
Pat> another alternative (besides a big/expensive unix machine)?
Take a look at the comp.mail.sendmail FAQ, I don't have an answer for
you, sorry. My scales for SMTP are small (<100 users).
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