[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

>   Ever.  NFS's history of piss-poor file locking means a shared mailspool is
> a recipe for disaster in any kind of heterogeneous environment.

<yawn>  NFS file locking has gotten better over the years.  But this
is a religious issue at this point, and I don't want to debate this.

> It might
> work if your favorite implementation does locking right, and everyone is
> using that same implementation, but otherwise, forget it.

Maildir format works just fine over NFS, no locking required.

--kevin
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