Re: e-mail over AFS !

[Marc Horowitz]

>> But there is a need for mail user agents that rely on the file system
>> to do the locking rather than trying to cook up their own, and they
>> would (of course) not run well at all under unix, but may run over AFS.

I disagree.  This implies a commonality of filesystems which will be a
long time coming, if it ever exists at all.  The need is for a
standard protocol for doing mailbox manipulations which is
file-system-independent.  Protocols like POP are a beginning, and IMAP
is a much more featureful solution.  These protocols don't depend on
anything more than an IP stack, so implementations can be simpler and
more portable.

                Marc