Re: [cobalt-users] NFS does not support sendmail ?

["Ted" <ted@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

what alternative are there for mass storage media for mail?
Postfix?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Larry Smith" <lesmith@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, April 12, 2004 2:57 PM
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] NFS does not support sendmail ?


> On Monday 12 April 2004 14:33, Ted wrote:
> > I was trying to move all of our media to one location , and was trying
to
> > NFS mount
> > the media sendmail would be reading and writing to. Any doo's or don'ts?
> >
> > Anyone ever tried this on Raqs?
> >
>
> Bottom line - _do_not_ do this.....
>
> Sendmail/deliver (more deliver agent than sendmail) require exclusive
"locks"
> to read/write data to / from the mailbox in question.  NFS does not do
this
> well (or in some cases at all) and it will corrupt your mailboxes, give
loads
> and loads of "cannot open mailbox" errors, plus a few other interesting
> errors that will probably appear to have no relavence at all - but all
track
> back to "mail" being on an NFS mount.
>
>   This works (nfs mounting mail areas) when using IMAP and / or software
that
> supports the "maildir" format (each message is written to a separate file
> under the users home directory into a "mail" directory - which also
supports
> mail folders and several other "features"
>
> While I have not done this (tried NFS) on a Cobalt, I have done on several
> other *nix systems and it fails miserably with mailbox (pop3 style
mailboxes)
> but works sorta-kind-a-almost with maildir format.
>
> -- 
> Larry Smith
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