Carlos,

I can comment a bit but I'd like to learn too.

Conventional wisdom is (was) that you cannot run pop over NFS: the file/record locking is inadequate. Certainly my Qualcomm pop documentation says you mustn't use NFS.

Similar issues with mail delivery agents (am I using the right term?) dropping mail into an NFS mounted directory (I use sendmail).

However, maybe with adequate bandwidth, or with a recent version of NFS, these are workable. I have no knowledge of the particular server or pop you are using.

I'd be glad of theoretical comments and practical experience since it seems very attractive to have the mail drop directory on a filer. I've never dared try!

Roger.

At 20:49 09/12/2004, Carlos A. Alvarez wrote:

Hi all,
I mounted on Filer the users mailbox, and when a user requests her/him mailbox, it is locked (hang) and ipop3d process appears awaiting and adding.(/usr/mail/*.lock & *.lock.1106.....)
The server SGI is acting as SMTP and POP3 server mounting Filer NFS V3

/etc/fstab on SGI

filer:/vol/vol1/indy /filer nfs rw 0 0

filer:/vol/vol1/indy /var/mail nfs rw 0 0

Any comment would be appreciated.

Thanks

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