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Date:      Wed, 17 Nov 1999 20:43:46 +0100 (CET)
From:      Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
To:        dcs@newsguy.com (Daniel C. Sobral)
Cc:        Jos.Backus@nl.origin-it.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: vmpfw in pine via NFS
Message-ID:  <199911171943.UAA01866@yedi.iaf.nl>
In-Reply-To: <3832E1AE.97FFFEF7@newsguy.com> from "Daniel C. Sobral" at "Nov 18, 1999  2:11:10 am"

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As Daniel C. Sobral wrote ...
> Jos Backus wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, Nov 16, 1999 at 10:03:07AM -0800, Doug White wrote:
> > > If so you're breaking the cardinal rule of NFS: Never serve mail spools
> > > via NFS.
> > 
> > ...unless you're using the Maildir mailbox format and delivery protocol:
> > 
> >         http://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html
> 
> /me shivers at the thought of my (easily) 500+ new messages a day
> and hundreds of thousands of messages being stored one file for each
> message...

It's been done. It's called MS Exchange.................

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