Re: Bug#43529: debian-policy: mail locking in Debian is _not_ NFS safe
On Fri, Sep 10, 1999 at 11:46:05AM +0200, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> Bad idea. Why do you want to share a mail spool over NFS? Because
> there's another machine that wants to access the mail, or the mail
> is stored on another machine and you want to access it. That other
> machine might well not be a Debian machine, and it could be very hard
> to change that machine over to maildir.
Actually, IMAP is much more efficient (and reliable) than NFS for
this application.
I suppose if people insist on using an unreliable mail serving system
there's no way of stopping them. But how many systems are we talking
about where NFS is required and IMAP is not an option?
--
Raul
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