Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 14:32:02 -0400 From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Greg Stringfellow <greg@smokey.prismnet.com> Cc: isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NFS/Mail Questions Message-ID: <3247.861129122@orion.webspan.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 15 Apr 1997 11:32:45 CDT." <199704151632.LAA03774@smokey.prismnet.com>
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Greg Stringfellow wrote in message ID <199704151632.LAA03774@smokey.prismnet.com>: > I'm looking into building a secondary POP/mail server and would like to use > NFS so that users on our shell account server can get mail. Looking at the > list archives, I've seen problems reported because of the lack of file > locking code in NFS. Don't. I just told them to use POP/IMAP compliant clients. If the don't like pine/mutt and insist on using elm, etc (which does NOT support POP or IMAP), there isn't much you can do. The only way I'd do it is if the client signed a disclaimer saying that any mail lossage is not your fault... Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info
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