Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 01:53:46 -0500 From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.org> To: Mark Crispin <MRC@CAC.Washington.EDU> Cc: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>, terry@lambert.org, j@uriah.heep.sax.de, roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, current@FreeBSD.org, scrappy@ki.net Subject: Re: /var/mail (was: re: Help, permission problems...) Message-ID: <2495.846744826@orion.webspan.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 29 Oct 1996 18:14:11 PST." <MailManager.846641651.13515.mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU>
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Mark Crispin wrote in message ID <MailManager.846641651.13515.mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU>: > Has it ever dawned on any of you that a user on a FreeBSD system just might b > e > getting the mail spool via NFS from a different flavor of UNIX, one that uses > the .lock files instead? Probably not, but it's my job to think about such > things and make sure that they work, because golly gee, people do such things No, probably because without NFS locking, it will have a tendancy to destroy mail. Ergo, it isn't done :-) NFS for e-mail is evil and people who do it should be shot. POP and IMAP are perfectly reasonable ways of collecting e-mail (and yes, I do know what the subject of this discussion is/was). Some people who have a mad love for /usr/bin/mail want /var/mail NFS mounted from the mail box to the shell box. I tell them to use fetchmail. Problem solved. To be perfectly honest, I don't see the problem here ... make the locking method an option, just like elm does. No more problem. Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info
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