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Date:      Sun, 1 Mar 1998 10:11:54 -0300 (EST)
From:      Joao Carlos Mendes Luis <jonny@coppe.ufrj.br>
To:        evanc@synapse.net (Evan Champion)
Cc:        jonny@coppe.ufrj.br, viren@rstcorp.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 2.2.6 for NFS server
Message-ID:  <199803011311.KAA14426@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br>
In-Reply-To: <000d01bd4513$156a5ff0$c9252fce@cello.synapse.net> from Evan Champion at "Mar 1, 98 08:08:09 am"

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// >Delivery is local in all my installations.  My concern is with reading.
// 
// Maildirs are totally safe for reading or writing via NFS (or anything else)
// with or without locking, including environments with multiple servers doing
// deliveries.  You would have to use a POP server that supports maildirs
// (included with qmail) or switch to a reader that supports them (ie: MUTT).

What exactly is "maildirs" ?  Is it a form of dot locking ?  Does
procmail supports it ?  I've recently changed my local mail deliverer
to procmail.  And do not feel tempted to change smtpd/sendmail/procmail
for qmail in the near future.

Mutt is in my test queue, though.

					Jonny

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