-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, [EMAIL PROTECTED] hath spake thusly: > On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, at 8:45am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > ... you shouldn't allow NFS access to your mail spool ... > > Ever. NFS's history of piss-poor file locking means a shared mailspool is > a recipe for disaster in any kind of heterogeneous environment. It might > work if your favorite implementation does locking right, and everyone is > using that same implementation, but otherwise, forget it.
Even then, you still shouldn't do it. Locking a mail spool, specifically an mbox mail spool, has issues of its own. Dan Bernstien got a lot of this right in his discussion about why not mbox. I don't agree with everything he says (like his unqualified statement that maildir is inherently faster), but as far as locking issues, he's dead on. I don't have the link handy, but you can find it easily enough by doing a google for qmail... But, for the security implications that Paul mentioned, I wouldn't allow NFS access to the spool even if you were using maildir. - -- Derek Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] - --------------------------------------------- I prefer mail encrypted with PGP/GPG! GnuPG Key ID: 0x81CFE75D Retrieve my public key at http://pgp.mit.edu Learn more about it at http://www.gnupg.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9GLMMdjdlQoHP510RAnLrAKCEONglEDjBkyJiqHzjUsxxEibq0QCfVyst /JjDCVYOhLFI5Z0opsOgnWE= =6FGU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
