Andy Mell <amell@???> wrote:
>
>The main problem appears to lie in replicating /var/mail/<mboxname> across
>multiple servers. These files need to be kept in sync and accessible from
>imapd/pop3d. NFS is apparently not a good idea for this due to the locking
>issue.
No, keeping mailboxes on NFS is OK. Our central email server uses NetApps
for the filestore with standard Unix mailboxes accessed via uw-imap on
Solaris. This is OK until you need to scale to large mailboxes or many
users, and NetApps may be very nice but they are very expensive.
Tony.
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