When you say NFS, switching to MailDir style mailboxes springs to
mind, since it's NFS friendly..i'm wary of using mbox format over NFS.
But i dont know if your cucipop server support this for reading.
That's the only comments i have.

-Tony
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Anthony J. Biacco Network Administrator/Engineer
thelittleprinceasteroid-b612.org Intergrafix Internet Services

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On 9 Jan 2001, Chris Picton wrote:

> Hi
>
> I currently have the following setup:
>
> Multiple (3) MX servers at the same priority, doing MX for about 1500
> virtual domains, running sendmail, delivering to a nfs mounted spool
>
> Multiple POP servers running a custom pop server, reading off the nfs
> spool
>
> I am upgrading/simplifying/fixing the setup (as there are many problems
> with it currently)
>
> I would like to move to postfix for SMTP, and cucipop for POP.
> Currently I have sorted out cucipop so that it authenticates off our
> radius servers without requiring users to exist locally on each of the
> pop servers.
>
> I would like postfix to deliver mail to the NFS spool using procmail to
> handle the locking issues. However, I don't want local accounts for
> each mailbox. Can this be handled using postfix? Currently all my
> virtual domains either deliver off site, or to a bare username. eg:
>
> chrisvdom.com: chrisp
>
> I would want to accept mail for chrisp locally, but only if it is in the
> RHS of a virtual address.The mailbox /var/spool/mail/chrisp would be
> owned by user mail.
>
> Has anyone got some hints/tips for me?
>
> --
> Chris Picton
> Bytes Technology Group Systems Developer
> Chris.PictonBTGNet.net
>
>

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