22 Jan
1999
22 Jan
'99
4:40 p.m.
While we're on the subject of mail, I was thinking of moving our sendmail spool area from a drive local to the Sun mail server to one of our NetApp boxes. Anyone have any pros/cons regarding NFS mounting the mail spool to the mail server?
Yes: use maildir format for mail delivery over NFS. NFS locking isn't good enough to handle mbox-style (i.e. sendmail, procmail, etc) mail delivery over networked drives.
Nick Hilliard Ireland On-Line System Operations