> Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 10:03:04 -0800 > From: Greg Earle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I wrote: > > OK, I'm embarrassed to ask such a newbie question, but ... here goes. > > > > I run a small departmental POP server at work. It serves maybe, oh, around > > 70-100 people or so (just guessing). (So, to get ahead of myself a bit, > > we don't really have enough people - read: entries in "/var/mail" - for > > me to think that going to some two-level hash directory setup in the > > spool will help me with my problem very much. Read on ... ) > > I forgot to add something important: "/var/mail" is NFS-mounted onto most
You need to migrate the people away from this. For those that are using dtmail, they can set dtmail to imap mode and have mail on the server. The hard part here is showing, and convincing, the users how they get better service by NOT NFS mounting the mail spool and how service is improved for everyone by not NFS mounting the spool directory. I've done that. Part of the migration process was done by bringing up a new, more powerful, mailserver and migrating user to that server. Of course, the new server did NOT share anything - so the users could NOT mount the spool. One argument you could make is that the S-20/71 is old and maintenance costs on a new server will be much lower... (True, by the way...) > 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" mailtool users will have to migrate to dtmail. The others all have an imap mode available. For those that don't want to migrate, fetchmail is available so they would not notice anything different from their present mode of operation. My thoughts. Yours may vary... Regards, Gregory Hicks > over NFS. So, using "server mode" is, unfortunately, pretty much out. > (Yes, I know - it's an old, old setup that has been around for years.) > > (If we're going to force people to use POP/IMAP or some other access that > doesn't let them get onto the server or NFS mount the spool, that'll have > to be done as part of the migration to the future e-mail setup, not now.) > > Thanks, > > - Greg > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- Gregory Hicks | Principal Systems Engineer Cadence Design Systems | Direct: 408.576.3609 555 River Oaks Pkwy M/S 6B1 | Fax: 408.894.3400 San Jose, CA 95134 | Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The trouble with doing anything right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was." When a team of dedicated individuals makes a commitment to act as one... the sky's the limit. Just because "We've always done it that way" is not necessarily a good reason to continue to do so... Grace Hopper, Rear Admiral, United States Navy
