From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Apr 15 11:42:35 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA28920 for isp-outgoing; Tue, 15 Apr 1997 11:42:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA28910 for ; Tue, 15 Apr 1997 11:42:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from buffnet11.buffnet.net (shovey@buffnet11.buffnet.net [205.246.19.55]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA23276; Tue, 15 Apr 1997 14:42:47 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 14:42:46 -0400 (EDT) From: Steve To: Greg Stringfellow cc: isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NFS/Mail Questions In-Reply-To: <199704151632.LAA03774@smokey.prismnet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk What I have is a mail machine, and regular login servers. users get mail via pop from the mail machine where the mail physically resides. shell users get mail using pine/imap which does the imap login to the mail server where the files physically reside - pine folders are done this way as well. On Tue, 15 Apr 1997, Greg Stringfellow wrote: > 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. > > Is anyone using a similar setup like the one I'm describing above that > would like to share some of the pros and cons they ran into? Did anyone > think of a better way? > > Any information is appreciated. > > Greg > > -- > Greg Stringfellow PrismNet, Inc. > Network Administration WWW Pages, ISDN, Telnet, Dialup Accounts > HTTP://www.prismnet.com Phone: (512)-418-1568 > > >