From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 10 12: 6:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from abused.com (abused.com [216.86.128.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3F74153DE for ; Fri, 10 Sep 1999 12:06:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gvbmail@tns.net) Received: from GVB (gvb.tns.net [216.86.143.6]) by abused.com (8.9.3/I feel abused.) with ESMTP id MAA80965; Fri, 10 Sep 1999 12:06:18 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.19990910120917.015da478@abused.com> X-Sender: gvbmail@mail.tns.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 12:10:49 -0700 To: Jaye Mathisen From: GVB Subject: Re: NetApp Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG What locking problems will I run into? I planned on building qpopper with the server mode enabled so it doesnt copy the mail file to a .pop.username, but it still creates a 0 byte .pop.username file so that in a sense is qpopper's method of locking. What problems would I have with sendmail? Thanks in advance. GVB At 04:27 PM 9/9/99 -0700, you wrote: >We use qmail with maildir, so locking issues don't exist. We use several >mail servers and readers all spooling and reading from the same netapp FS. > >There will be locking issues with sendmail, unless you choose to use >procmail for a delivery agent which will address the NFS locking concerns >as well. > >But maildir is slick and easy. > > > >On Thu, 9 Sep 1999, Robert Du Gaue wrote: > > > When you say you use it, are you using it in the method described below? > > We have an F720 here that has worked great for a straight NFS server, but > > I believe additional problems and OS issues arise when you intend to use > > this a backend for multiple mail servers that may end up have locking > > problems among each other. If this isn't exactly accurate I'd like to hear > > additional comments on this as well! > > > > On Thu, 9 Sep 1999, Jaye Mathisen wrote: > > > > > Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 15:27:18 -0700 (PDT) > > > From: Jaye Mathisen > > > To: GVB > > > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > > Subject: Re: NetApp > > > > > > > > > We use it, it works just fine. Use UDP v2 mounts, and life is sweet. > > > > > > On Thu, 9 Sep 1999, GVB wrote: > > > > > > > I am looking to implement a mail server solution using one machine for > > > > POP3, one for SMTP, and the other for WebMail. I am going to be > using a > > > > NetApp file server on the back end which will store /var/mail and > > > > /var/spool/mqueue. These two will be mounted on the appropriate > > > > machines. Anyone have any recommendations on this situation? I > have heard > > > > very good things about NetApp mounted NFS but I have also heard the > > > > opposite from others. Will Qpopper work in a NFS mounted solution > like > > > > this one? > > > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > > > GVB > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Robert Du Gaue - rdugaue@calweb.com http://www.calweb.com > > CalWeb Internet Services Inc. (916) 641-9320 > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message