On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Greg Earle wrote: > I forgot to add something important: "/var/mail" is NFS-mounted onto most > every machine, as there are people still using things like the CDE "dtmail" > MailTool, and ELM, Mutt, Mush, and so on, to read their mail "directly" > over NFS. So, using "server mode" is, unfortunately, pretty much out.
Not necessarily. It's only "out" if you can't get compatible locking in place, or if you can't guarantee that the users who access directly won't pop3 at the same time.
