Date: 07 Jun 2001 11:46:52 -0400 From: Chris Shenton <chris@shenton.org> To: wolfgang@lyxys.ka.sub.org (Wolfgang Zenker) Cc: Michael Rubin <mhr@neverthere.org>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mail.local & qmail Message-ID: <87lmn4uwb7.fsf@thanatos.shenton.org> In-Reply-To: <m157ks3-003pXTC@lyxys.ka.sub.org> References: <m157ks3-003pXTC@lyxys.ka.sub.org>
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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
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