Date: Sun, 25 May 1997 03:11:37 -0400 From: "Troy Settle" <rewt@i-Plus.net> To: "Dan Busarow" <dan@dpcsys.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: network mail Message-ID: <199705250709.DAA15624@radford.i-plus.net>
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From: Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com> >On Fri, 23 May 1997, Troy Settle wrote: >> I'm having a problem with mail services for my shell users. I've >> tried imap, but it's slow, and conflicts with pop3 (I'm using >> qpopper). > >Could you be more specific about what problem you are seeing? qpopper doesn't recognize the imap control file, and proceeds to remove/deliver it. If I run pine from a shell machine, and use imap to read my mail, all goes well until I then try to read my mail directly from the mail server, at which time, all the stuff in /var/mail/st is not visible. (so I gotta telnet back tot he shell box to read the mail I left laying around). All this is, and the fact that it takes almost 30 seconds to get imap4 to open a mail box from the shell server to the mail server (they're connected with about 20 feet of cat5 with a hub in between). >We're using imap4 and ipop3d from UWash with *no* problems. >In fact, we got a bunch of calls asking if something was >wrong cause users checking their mail said it went *too >fast* (so we were obviously not sending them all of their >mail :) the day we switched over. They got used to it real >quick. > >> I'm currently NFS mounting /var/mail, but as I understand >> it, this is not safe, and can result in loss of mail due to file >> locking problems. What reccomendations can any of you give me? > >Deliver mail for shell users to the shell machine? Would be nice, but there's only one customer that uses only his shell. A handfull of other customers may use their shell, or they might pop their mail to a windows or mac mail reader. I often catch myself reading mail directly, or sometimes I'll use an imap client, or other times, I'll use a pop client. It all depends on my mood and what computer I happen to be sitting at. -- Troy Settle <st@i-Plus.net> Network Administrator, iPlus Internet Services http://www.i-Plus.net
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