Excerpts from mail: 7-Jul-94 Re: e-mail over AFS ! Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] (530)
> Console reads the mail directory periodically to see if there are new
> messages. Once AFS caches the mail directory, no network traffic is
> generated until mail is actually delivered. At that point, the AFS
> server will break its callback on the cached mail directory, and the
> next time console checks, the server will send over the modified
> directory.
Ok, that's what I thought AMS did. I guess I don't think of that as not
"involving direct server access", but you're right, there's no server
access until mail is delivered _or_ the callback expires. The same
approach will work fine in DFS, though token expiration intervals tend
to be shorter than callback expiration intervals.
