On 8 Apr 1998, James Youngman wrote:
> >>>>> "Pat" == Pat Hennessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Pat> I'm willing to bet money that you could use nfs to mirror your
> Pat> mail directory (/var/spool/mail and their home directories if
> Pat> you have people wanting to telnet in and use pine or something)
>
> Mail delivery to NFS-mounted volumes is a risky business and wisely
> widely avoided.
I don't think you understand the way you set NFS mail up, only
/var/spool/mail is mounted via NFS. /var/spool/mqueue is LOCAL. Mail is
where the mail itself is stored, as long as you don't have mqueue coming
from NFS its fine.
Many commercial versions of unix including AIX, Solaris and many other
versions setup this as a standard install if you choose NFS options.
Linux is no different it can cope just as well with it, my mail servers at
work cope with a hell of a lot of traffic for a big intranet (over 300
domains mail come via our server). We have had no problems what so ever
with this setup, we have very good equipment on the servers, multi RAID
drives, etc.
Chris.
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