Re: mail, sendmail, etc...

B.Candler@pobox.com
Mon, 12 Oct 1998 10:14:52 +0100


On Sun, Oct 11, 1998 at 11:23:00PM +0100, Glynn Clements wrote:
> > ... but what about mail and sendmail ?
> > Can i "export" via NFS the directory /var/spool/mail of the main server to
> > the others ?.
>
> Yes.
>
> > All the users will be able to read their mail on every box....
> > i am not sure it's a good idea !
>
> Why not?

File locking over NFS is a scary issue. You can try to ensure that all your
MUAs and MTAs are compiled to do dot-locking.

Alternatively you can use Maildir format which is NFS-safe (supported by
qmail and exim, or sendmail plus patched procmail; support from MUAs is less
- mutt can do it and I think there's a patched version of pine)
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