Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 16:12:15 -0700 From: dannyman <dannyman@toldme.com> To: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: "Robert J. Collins" <rcollins@hwi.buffalo.edu>, Brian Whalen <bri@sonicboom.org>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: redundant mail servers Message-ID: <20010917161215.U11099@toldme.com> In-Reply-To: <00be01c13f99$a6225aa0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>; from tedm@toybox.placo.com on Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 09:56:09AM -0700 References: <001401c13f7d$ec9e8c40$b655cd80@dhcp.hwi.buffalo.edu> <00be01c13f99$a6225aa0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>
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On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 09:56:09AM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > >NFS seems natural, but my "supervisor" is bent on using sendmail. From > >what I've heard sendmail and NFS just don't mix well. > > > > This stems from the reason that the FreeBSD 4.X NFS don't support locking. > > There's an experimental lockd at > > http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~crossd/FreeBSD/lockd-0.2a.tar.gz > > just run make under 4.X > > locking is in FreeBSD 5.0, both server and client. If you use Maildir, you dont have to lock. Serve mail via Courier. If you really want reliable mbox file locking on x86 hardware, you might want to try Solaris x86. -danny -- http://dannyman.toldme.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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