From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 17 12:52:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (osmium.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DE0914DB4 for ; Wed, 17 Nov 1999 12:52:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) Received: from yedi.iaf.nl (uucp@localhost) by uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (8.9.2/8.9.2) with UUCP id VAA26208; Wed, 17 Nov 1999 21:39:49 +0100 (MET) Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA01866; Wed, 17 Nov 1999 20:43:46 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wilko) From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199911171943.UAA01866@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: vmpfw in pine via NFS In-Reply-To: <3832E1AE.97FFFEF7@newsguy.com> from "Daniel C. Sobral" at "Nov 18, 1999 2:11:10 am" To: dcs@newsguy.com (Daniel C. Sobral) Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 20:43:46 +0100 (CET) Cc: Jos.Backus@nl.origin-it.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Organisation: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands X-pgp-info: PGP public key at 'finger wilko@freefall.freebsd.org' X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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................. -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands - Powered by FreeBSD - |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte WWW : http://www.tcja.nl http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message