I'll hit the WWW on that, a little learnin never hurt *grin*

Thanks.

-----Original Message----- From: Nick Christenson [mailto:npc@sendmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 1999 1:33 PM To: jeff.mohler@netapp.com Cc: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Re: File locking, sendmail and toasters

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.