From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Mar 5 3:48:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from soho.london.virgin.NET (soho.london.virgin.net [194.168.38.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC3951501D for ; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 03:48:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scot@london.virgin.net) Received: from sulu.tech.vnet (sulu.london.virgin.net [194.168.38.248]) by soho.london.virgin.NET (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA19360 for ; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 11:46:44 GMT Received: from localhost (scot@localhost) by sulu.tech.vnet (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA06227 for ; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 11:46:06 GMT X-Authentication-Warning: sulu.tech.vnet: scot owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 11:46:06 +0000 (BST) From: Scot Elliott X-Sender: scot@sulu To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mail server setup In-Reply-To: <36DFC157.D20AA061@eclipse.net.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Exim seems to use quite a reliable mailbox locking technique (similar to that of Pine): http://www.exim.org/exim-html-2.10/doc/html/spec_15.html#IDX967 Scot. On Fri, 5 Mar 1999, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > I seem to remember procmail claiming to deliver reliably > > over NFS. I don't know whether that reliability extends > > to safe interaction with whatever pop server is in use. > > >From the cucipop features file: > > + Is the only popd to perform reliable mailbox locking across > NFS as well (it uses the same excellent and proven locking > algorithms as does procmail) > > -- > Stuart Henderson > Network Engineer, Eclipse Networking Ltd. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message