"michael (m.d.) shubaly" says:
> For example we have a internal email system. We typically run several
> sessions of this system on our nodes, therefore the mail box(s) need
> to be locked by different sessions at different times depending if
> your reading in new mail or sending new mail. We use the rpc.lockd
> and rpc.statd to lock over NFS. As we understand it the AFS system
> will "lie" to you and say the file is locked and return a "0" code
> even though the file is not locked.
I would strongly recommend that you NOT run email over AFS. Instead,
use a pop server to distribute mail to users on demand. It makes far
more sense, and if you use kpop, its just as secure.
Perry
