Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 14:43:28 +0200 (MET DST) From: Nick Hibma <nick.hibma@jrc.it> To: Andrew Reilly <andrew@gurney.reilly.home.jrc.it> Cc: FreeBSD hackers mailing list <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: - pop3 - URGENT Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.980623144024.6626l-100000@elect8> In-Reply-To: <19980623180009.36116@gurney.reilly.home>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> To the others who have mentioned that there are dangers associated
> with such a configuration: what are they? Dan's arguments in favour
> of the arrangement seemed pretty convincing to me.
Home directories are very often stored on NFS drvies. If you ask
sendmail to store a message on a NFS mounted drive that is unavailable,
it blocks until the drive becomes available.
By that time the message has been accepted and deleted from the senders
queue. If the sendmail dos not succeed in saving that message into the
box because the NFS drive does not come online, that implies the
message is lost.
Are at least that is what I think will happen.
Nick
STA-ISIS, T.P.270, Joint Research Centre, Italy
building: 27A
tel.: +39 332 78 9549
fax.: +39 332 78 9185
To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.GSO.3.95q.980623144024.6626l-100000>