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Date:      Mon, 3 Dec 2012 16:11:45 +0700
From:      Olivier Nicole <olivier.nicole@cs.ait.ac.th>
To:        Frank Bonnet <f.bonnet@esiee.fr>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: NFS client over private network
Message-ID:  <CA%2Bg%2BBvgARLwqde9b5urJTTf7k-jx=HTuxd05jduyVqoHk0=Yug@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <50BC69F6.1080903@esiee.fr>
References:  <50BC69F6.1080903@esiee.fr>

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Hi,

> I have some trouble on a mail server running 9.0-RELEASE-p3
>
> Last week I set up a NFS mounted partition containing 1 Tb of IMAP folders
> the NFS mount is done through a private network link on a dedicated giga
> ethernet link with the following config :
>
> 10.0.0.1/24 <--> 10.0.0.2/24
>  mailhub              NFS NetAPP 3210 server
>
> I use MBOX format on this server ( Postfix + Dovecot 2 )

There is something somewhere saying "don't use mbox format on NFS".
It's simply wont work. It may work, but someday you'll face some
issue.

Time to change for maildir format :)

Bon courage.

Olivier

>
> Since I used this configuration a lock problem occured on some INBOXes
> here is an example of the problem.
>
>
> Nov 30 23:59:26 mail postfix/local[35280]: 3YCr470N6MzYmp0:
> to=<xxx@esiee.fr>, orig_to=<xxxx@esiee.fr>, relay=local, delay=1527,
> delays=1470/39/0/19, dsn=4.2.0, status=deferred (cannot update mailbox
> /var/mail/xxx for user xxx. unable to lock for exclusive access: Resource
> temporarily unavailable)
>
> I don't think Postfix or Dovecot are responsible because when I do not use
> the "private" NFS link this does not happen ... I mean when the partition is
> NFS
> mounted with public IP addess.
>
> Thanks for any info if you have some ...
>
>
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