30 Sep
1999
30 Sep
'99
4:30 p.m.
Nick Hilliard nick@iol.ie writes:
If you need to have text-based NFS-mounted client mailboxes, the only reliable option is to use a mailbox format which doesn't require locking, such as Maildir.
Depending on what access is provided to the mail spool, yes, maildir is a safer, viable format.
Check procmail for to use as an LDA for this or look a qmail for some other thoughts on how this is done.
But not all instances can work with this. If you have shell users that do funky stuff based on the mbox format, this can be a problem. There are plenty of other cases where maildir is not a viable alternative to mbox.
I hope you find what you need.
Alex