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On Friday 17 October 2003 17:34, Nate Duehr wrote:

> It doesn't scale (with mbox) to hundreds of machines, and many
> implementations of NFS on non-linux systems don't implement file-locking
> properly, which especially hurts mbox.

Oh aye, the exclamation mark was to bring home the point that it was a pretty 
silly thing to do, but it worked.

> Doing maildir over NFS is a perfectly valid way to do this, but you end
> up with at least three boxes... a highly redundant NFS file server and
> mail servers tied to it.

Not necessarily. You *can* do it with just one box (no redundancy), or 2 boxes 
(failover mailstore, and backup MX), or 3, or 4, or 5, or ......
Apart from the load, or any monetary issues, I see no reason why a 
"fileserver" can't do mail too.

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Mike Williams
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