On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, David Schweikert wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 17:06:18 +0000, Ian Prideaux wrote:
> > The first machine has the users home/Maildir directories exported
> > via NFS. If the second machine receives a message for a local user
> > and can't deliver it because the NFS link is down i.e. it can't
> > write to ~user/Maildir, it bounces the message with an error:
>
> Saving mail to NFS mounted mailboxes is a very bad idea because of the
> problematic locking. You really should consider LMTP for doing such
> things...
>

but isn't that usually with formats like mbox. now THAT'S a bad idea.
it's not really bad with a Maildir format since every message is in it's
own file..there's nothing really to lock on a write.
or am i missing something?

-Tony
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