29 Sep
1999
29 Sep
'99
8:33 p.m.
Could you not use ProcMail for local delivery (dot locking)?
No..im not a NetApp engineer, but in past lives that's what Ive done before when presented with mailspools via NFS.
In a general sense with general NFS implementations, that's not enough by itself to be sure you're safe. You certainly want to use file locking rather than lockd, but using files isn't a sufficient condition to be sure that your mail won't get messed up.
Note, though, that you can "get away" with doing a naive NFS based mail implementation and statistically never see problems, but there is usually a race condition in there somewhere.
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Nick Christenson
npc@sendmail.com