From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 12 2:15:29 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 12 02:15:27 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from harp.wrdp.com (harp.dublin.wrdp.net [212.147.130.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF40A37B402 for ; Tue, 12 Dec 2000 02:15:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from JRAFTERY (jraftery.dublin.wrdp.net [172.16.4.52]) by harp.wrdp.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 81ABC10AC6; Tue, 12 Dec 2000 10:15:17 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <012b01c06424$777ee8e0$340410ac@JRAFTERY> From: "James Raftery" To: , References: <3A3564AC.CE7283BF@delanet.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD, Qmail, and NFS Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 10:15:35 -0000 Organization: Worldport Communications Inc MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Delanet Administration" To: ; ; Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 11:35 PM Subject: FreeBSD, Qmail, and NFS > This leads to the next question, is file locking necessary under Qmail > when using the Maildir style directory structure for the mail store? No. http://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html > Also, If anyone else has clustered FreeBSD with Qmail already, we would > like also to know how you achieved it and any tips you may have as to > configuration of such a setup. Yes, it works very well. Install qmail locally on your frontend machines. Have the user's home space with Maildir format mailboxes mounted over NFS. It's quite simple. As for tips: give your frontend machines plenty of disk I/O; for heavy usage consider using different NICs for public traffic and for NFS traffic; get a reliable NFS server (NetApps are fab, but pricey). james To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message