>
>
> I'm enjoying exim (2.04) - it seems to fit my needs very well. Thanks to
> the developers. Here is my question:
>
> Is it a "bad idea" to let more than one server append mail to a shared
> NFS-mounted /var/spool/mail/user mail spool directory.? I want to
> introduce the new exim-based server gradually, so if I could let it
> deliver "local" mail to the NFS mount, as well as let the creaking old
> mail server do it too (on its local drive), my transition could be more
> gradual. I gather that NFS is a bit weak in Linux, and I haven;'t dared do
> the patch in the README as it seemed rather old, but it's too late to
> change the Linux basis of the LAN. The mailboxes in /var/spool/mail are
> accessed by users on Pine over IMAP during the course of things too. How
> can be sure that dot-locking (which I presume is what I need) or whatever
> is a) working and b) being used by everything?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ben
> Nairobi
NFS is rarely your friend. NFS under Linux was very broken last I heard,
especially with respect to locking. I wouldn't do it. You might investigate
SMB/Samba, although I am not convinced you could use it in this scenario.
Julian
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