On 9 Jun 1999, Harald Meland wrote:
> If some process (e.g. a queue runner) comes along and finds that for a
> particular message, the -H file exists but there is no corresponding
> -D file, things might get weird.
Precisely.
> <ramble>
> However, if it comes to changing the spool locking mechanism, one
> might consider doing locking in such a way that a single spool could
> be shared between multiple hosts (over e.g. NFS).
>
> I'm in way over my head here, so please ignore me if such a thing is
> obviously infeasible for some reason :)
> </ramble>
That should work already, provided your NFS implementation supports a
lockd (there were at some time some that didn't) and you use the
localhost_number option to ensure that message ids are unique among your
set of hosts.
I do not, however, know if anybody is using Exim in this way.
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