Re: vmpfw in pine via NFS

[David Scheidt]

On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Mike Walker wrote:

> > If so you're breaking the cardinal rule of NFS: Never serve mail
> > spools via NFS.

> Why is this a cardinal rule?

FreeBSD doesn't support locking over NFS, so you will get corruption of
mailboxes if there are attempts at concurrent access of the mail spools.
Maildir solves this problem.


David Scheidt



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