Re: Bug#43529: debian-policy: mail locking in Debian is _not_ NFS safe
On Fri, Aug 27, 1999 at 12:50:32PM +0200, Marco d'Itri 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/.
Could we have it be ~/.Maildir/ or somesuch instead? Random directories that
are really only accessed by tools and not by hand tend to bug me when they
clutter up my home directory.
-- Nathaniel
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