Re: Bug#43529: debian-policy: mail locking in Debian is _not_ NFS safe
In article <cistron.19990827125032.B740@wonderland.linux.it>,
Marco d'Itri <md@linux.it> wrote:
>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/.
Well, there are very good reasons to have mail in your homedir, but
there are also very good reasons _not_ to store mail in your homedir.
On our system we've moved to Maildir format, but the spool still lives in
/var/spool/mail.
Btw, you'll have to rewrite a lot of programs to support maildir.
I ended up writing a mail delivery program and a POP server myself
to support this ... fortunately mutt and pine (debian version) support
maildir format spools just fine, even in /var/spool/mail.
Mike.
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