From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jun 7 8:46:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from Thanatos.Shenton.Org (a3.ebbed1.client.atlantech.net [209.190.235.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B713D37B406 for ; Thu, 7 Jun 2001 08:46:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chris@Shenton.Org) Received: (qmail 15182 invoked by uid 1000); 7 Jun 2001 15:46:52 -0000 To: wolfgang@lyxys.ka.sub.org (Wolfgang Zenker) Cc: Michael Rubin , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mail.local & qmail References: From: Chris Shenton Date: 07 Jun 2001 11:46:52 -0400 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <87lmn4uwb7.fsf@thanatos.shenton.org> Lines: 14 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG wolfgang@lyxys.ka.sub.org (Wolfgang Zenker) writes: > If your user maildirs are on a nfs mounted file- system, forget > about the version conflict and move your maildirs somewhere > else. Mailspools and similar stuff on nfs mounted filesystems tend > not to work; not least because file locking on nfs is generally > unreliable or simply nonexistant. qmail's "Maildir" format *is* NFS-safe and was designed specifically to work around the NFS-maybe-lock problems. Works well and allows scaling. Other mailbox formats, including olde style UNIX /var/mail/username or ~username/Mail are not NFS-safe so this could be your problem. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message