> Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 16:45:03 +1100 > From: Roy Giles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Imap-uw] imap and NFS > > Hello, > > Our mail system resides on a fairly old Sparc machine running Solaris 2.6 > which is grinding to a halt; as a start in eventually moving off this machine, > we are thinking of moving our unix style mailbox format imap server :- > > IMAP4rev1 2004.357 > > on to a Linux box with mail still being delivered by smtp to the Solaris box. > > Could anyone with experience of running imap over NFS please comment on their > experiences pro and con, especially in the realm of locking.
Greetings: Um-m-m-m... What are you going to use NFS for? Allowing the users to mount /var/mail? Allowing the IMAP server to mount /var/mail from the smtp box? I do not believe that NFS provides for sufficient locking... I could be wrong though. Regards, Gregory Hicks --------------------------------------------------------------------- Gregory Hicks | Principal Systems Engineer Cadence Design Systems | Direct: 408.576.3609 555 River Oaks Pkwy M/S 6B1 | Fax: 408.894.3479 San Jose, CA 95134 | Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am perfectly capable of learning from my mistakes. I will surely learn a great deal today. "A democracy is a sheep and two wolves deciding on what to have for lunch. Freedom is a well armed sheep contesting the results of the decision." - Benjamin Franklin "The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed." --Alexander Hamilton _______________________________________________ Imap-uw mailing list [email protected] https://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/imap-uw
