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Subject: mail deliveries to NFS mount (sort of)
From: Adam Levin (alevinaudible.com)
Date: Mon Jun 12 2000 - 10:22:09 CDT

I'm trying to figure out if this is a bad idea or not.

I'm using Postfix 19991231-pl07.

I've got a mail server (Solaris 2.6 on Sun E250) which until now has been
my NFS server for user's home directories. Mail gets delivered via
postfix's own agent, and is processed via procmail. The default delivery
area is /var/mail/<username>.

Now, I've got a new NFS server to serve home directories. I'm trying to
decide whether I should mount the new homedir onto the mail server, or
leave the mail server off of NFS (users don't do anything on the mail
machine -- most mail is POPped off). The performance question is really
about procmail, I think, because the .procmailrc and the backup
directories are under the homedir, but the delivery area is not under the
NFS area.

Any thoughts on whether I should leave the homedirs alone, or NFS mount
them on the mail machine from the NFS server? One stability consideration
is that if the NFS server goes away, I'll obviously have trouble
delivering mail because the user's homedir won't exist, but then again the
.forward and .procmailrc won't be there anyway.

Any thoughts are appreciated.

-Adam

Adam Levin, Senior Unix Systems Administrator | http://www.audible.com/
Audible, Inc.
Wayne, NJ, 07470 "You can't second-guess ineffability,
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