Hi all
First off, a small introduction: I'm the Hosting Development Engineer for PIPEX Hosting in the UK. I have a small interest (depending how you look at size!) in NetApp kit, in that we're running them for a number of different applications.
On 10 December 2004 09:35, owner-toasters@mathworks.com wrote:
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.
Using file-based (UNIX spool, mbox format etc) mailboxes over NFS is bad. Using directory-based, such as Maildir format where every message is a separate file, over NFS is eminently possible - I know of several instances of very large installations using exactly this setup.
Similar issues with mail delivery agents (am I using the right term?) dropping mail into an NFS mounted directory (I use sendmail).
It depends on the format you're delivering - I've successfully used Exim 3.x and 4.x to achieve Maildir deliveries, with courier-imap (and POP) to allow users to read it.
Hope that helps
Graeme