Re: [EXIM] NFS-mounted mail spool on Linux 2.0.32 RedHat 5.0…

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Piete Brooks
CC: Ben Parker, exim-users
Subject: Re: [EXIM] NFS-mounted mail spool on Linux 2.0.32 RedHat 5.0 OK?
On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Piete Brooks wrote:

> What I do is to RTFM, check the configuration (i.e. that the required locking
> is compiled in and enabled), and then use a programme which "claims the lock"
> and try all the operations.
> e.g. claim the lock, then try IMAP reading, old MTA delivery and new NTA
> delivery -- if any work (i.e. do not "fail" or "block", you know for sure that
> you have a problem !


Note that the latest Exim (2.04) has a utility called eximlock which
locks a mailbox in the same way as Exim does. This could be used to do
this kind of test.


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Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
ph10@???      Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.



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