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From: Joe McGuckin <joe@via.net>
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Subject: Mail servers & NFS locking?
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I want to have a seperate machine as a sendmail/pop email server. 
I've heard that on some OS's this can scramble mailboxes if NFS locking 
doesn't work.

For FreeBSD, what is the preferred method to do this? Can I just NFS mount
the mail directory on the user machines? Does NFS locking work?

Thanks!

Joe