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.

-- 
Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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