Re: Bug#43529: debian-policy: mail locking in Debian is _not_ NFS safe
On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 02:51:21PM -0400, Zephaniah E. Hull wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 12:50:32PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> > On Aug 27, Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> wrote:
> > >So perhaps we should mandate that all mail programs should be capable
> > >of using Maildir format, which is NFS safe without needing locks, and
> > >adopt that as our default.
> > I would support a policy amendment to move debian to ~/Maildir/.
>
> As would I.
Please forgive someone new to debian -- the benefits of moving to Maildir
format for NFS-based systems seems obvious, if it removes lock-contention
problems. However, wouldn't that mean mutt would be the only mailreader
supplied with Debian? This would be fine with me, since I rather enjoy mutt,
but some other people might not see it the same way.
(And how would procmail handle? Do exim, qmail, sendmail all support Maildir
format?)
It seems that the hassle might not be worth it? In the default-static
thread, the argument was made "if you want your system to have those
redundancies, do it yourself" It seems the same argument would apply?
Please help me understand this..
(please note, this is *not* an official dissention or anything.. just my
curiosity of how Maildir format would work.. :)
Thank you
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