Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 14:15:57 -0500 (CDT) From: Geoff Mohler <gemohler@c-com.net> To: David Nugent <davidn@labs.usn.blaze.net.au> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RELENG_2_2 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970514141433.3964A-100000@dyslexic.phoenix.net> In-Reply-To: <199705141817.EAA01334@labs.usn.blaze.net.au>
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On Thu, 15 May 1997, David Nugent wrote: > I've only got one query. > > What happens when a user loses mail or has his/her mailbox > trashed when there is a locking collision/race caused by > dtmail and the local delivery agent using different locking > methods? > > This is the real problem. Like many, I've been bitten by this > when simply accessing a mailbox via nfs. It won't happen often, > but it surely will. I agree. We currently serve over 50,000 customers from Houston to Lima, Peru on FreeBSD, and most of them access Email via NFS. Procmail has worked very well for us an I would hate to see it broken.
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