From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Apr 22 11:12:10 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA29886 for isp-outgoing; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 11:12:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.webspan.net (mail.webspan.net [206.154.70.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA29879 for ; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 11:12:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from orion.webspan.net (orion.webspan.net [206.154.70.5]) by mail.webspan.net (WEBSPAN/970116) with ESMTP id OAA02009; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 14:11:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: from orion.webspan.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by orion.webspan.net (WEBSPN/970116) with ESMTP id OAA03449; Tue, 22 Apr 1997 14:11:12 -0400 (EDT) To: Steve cc: Blaz Zupan , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: Mail distribution In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 22 Apr 1997 13:53:24 EDT." Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 14:11:11 -0400 Message-ID: <3447.861732671@orion.webspan.net> Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Steve wrote in message ID : > Why dont you have to? How would you avoid the problem of finding > messages you deleted yesterday, in your inbox today simply because > you ended up on a different pop server that day? Because there are other ways to get around the problem :-) (Actually, I've had a LONG debate with my bosses about this issue for something done here, but that's another story). > > 2) Ever heard of a NetApp? The principle is very simple. You put up > > several honkin NFS servers in the back, and as many POP3 server > > boxes as you like in the front, mounting from the NFS > > server. Delivery and other configuration is an excercise for the > > reader. > But Freebsd doesnt have functiona NFS locking does it? or does netapp work > around this somehow? The people who I know definately use this solution (Netcom) don't use FreeBSD (for some weird reason). I believe AOL doesn't use FreeBSD either. Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info