In a message dated: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 00:36:55 EST
Derek Martin said:
>> That's the kicker, isn't it? Samba and SMB actually seem pretty good, as
>> network file systems go (despite the fact that the protocol is rather poorly
>> documented and the Microsoft implementations suck (as usual)), but it
>> doesn't support any kind of idea of Unix permissions. :-(
>
>Ya. As much as I hate it, the tradeoff in our current environment isn't
>really any more desireable. The one area where we could get rid of it is
to stop exporting the mail spool, but then all the users would gripe since
>they'd need to log into the mail server to read mail. No one's gonna like
>that.
Well, there is a solution, IMO. It just has to be "sold" properly. The
answer is go 100% POP3/IMAP, and don't export the spool to NFS clients. If
people want to read e-mail through something like emacs or exmh that uses the
local spool, you teach them about fetchmail. That solves a lot of problems
right there! They no longer have to telnet to a workstation to read their
mail if they don't want to, they can check mail from anywhere, they can still
use procmail if the want, they can still use whatever mail client they want,
etc.
--
Seeya,
Paul
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