Dave,
we have been deploying a very large mail service with the home directories
are mounted on NFS. we currently have 5 SMTP/POP3 boxes, each with thier
own queues accepting connections via a round-robin dns.
this boxes are the front-ends for another 5 Data servers which just serves
as NFS servers. all auth is done via NIS.
this setup is behind a firewall which blocks out anything incoming except
smtp/pop3, http/ftp and radius packets.
we are running all these machines on Linux 2.2.x kernels on the x86
architechture. and the only time we need to restart any machine if for
kernel upgrades :)
-marlon
At 11:12 PM 4/13/99 -0700, you wrote:
>Doug McClure wrote:
>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).
>
>
>Cheers,
>
> David
>
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