From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 24 18:35:29 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA00418 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 24 May 1997 18:35:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cedb.dpcsys.com (ns2.BEACH.net [209.25.4.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA00413 for ; Sat, 24 May 1997 18:35:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by cedb.dpcsys.com (8.8.5/8.8.2) with SMTP id BAA10650; Sun, 25 May 1997 01:35:24 GMT Date: Sat, 24 May 1997 18:35:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow To: Troy Settle cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: network mail In-Reply-To: <199705232009.QAA27011@radford.i-plus.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 23 May 1997, Troy Settle wrote: > I'm having a problem with mail services for my shell users. I've > tried imap, but it's slow, and conflicts with pop3 (I'm using > qpopper). Could you be more specific about what problem you are seeing? We're using imap4 and ipop3d from UWash with *no* problems. In fact, we got a bunch of calls asking if something was wrong cause users checking their mail said it went *too fast* (so we were obviously not sending them all of their mail :) the day we switched over. They got used to it real quick. > I'm currently NFS mounting /var/mail, but as I understand > it, this is not safe, and can result in loss of mail due to file > locking problems. What reccomendations can any of you give me? Deliver mail for shell users to the shell machine? Dan -- Dan Busarow 714 443 4172 DPC Systems / Beach.Net dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82