From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Apr 15 15:52:07 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA17200 for isp-outgoing; Tue, 15 Apr 1997 15:52:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pinky.junction.net (pinky.junction.net [199.166.227.12]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA17195 for ; Tue, 15 Apr 1997 15:52:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sidhe.memra.com (sidhe.memra.com [199.166.227.105]) by pinky.junction.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id PAA26009 for ; Tue, 15 Apr 1997 15:52:01 -0700 Received: from localhost (michael@localhost) by sidhe.memra.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id PAA16155 for ; Tue, 15 Apr 1997 15:46:49 -0700 Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 15:46:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Michael Dillon To: isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NFS/Mail Questions In-Reply-To: <3247.861129122@orion.webspan.net> Message-ID: Organization: Memra Software Inc. - Internet consulting MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 15 Apr 1997, Gary Palmer 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. > > 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. Just install ESR's fetchmail on the shell server to pick up email via POP or IMAP and deposit it where ELM can read it. http://www.ccil.org/~esr/esr-freeware.html Michael Dillon - Internet & ISP Consulting Memra Software Inc. - Fax: +1-250-546-3049 http://www.memra.com - E-mail: michael@memra.com