>One word comes to mind when I hear "NFS" and "mail" in the same
>breath... Ick.
>
>I admit I do not have any experience with qmail specifically in
>this area, or even any with IRIX in this area (my IRIX
>experience lies elsewhere), but the one time I was at a site
>that delivered mail into an NFS mounted spool things were ugly.
>
>
>Why do you want to use NFS? Why do you want to distribute
>things?
>
>The real question here is: What problem are you trying to
>solve with this?
>
>Whatever problem it is, I _doubt_ that NFS is the answer,
>regardless of both the platform (e.g., IRIX) and the MTA (e.g.,
>qmail).
My experience (and others on this list) differs. Maildir on a reliable NFS
system is an excellent way of sharing a filestore across multiple front end
systems.
A common model is multiple POP servers (Maildir ones that is) using a NetApp
box. It works exceedingly well.
I agree that NFS is *not* well suited to V7 mailboxes and the associated
locking.
So, returning to the original question. If IRIX provides a quality NFS
implementation and you plan to stash incoming email in Maildir format, then
it should work quite well.
Regards.
