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Re: Bug#43529: debian-policy: mail locking in Debian is _not_ NFS safe



On Aug 27, Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> wrote:
 
 >mbox format mail is not safe over NFS even if there is locking.
Is not safe if there is a crash, but otherwise it works.

 >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/.

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ciao,
Marco


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