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From: haynes@ucscc.UCSC.EDU (99700000)
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Subject: Re: NFS-mounted /usr/spool/mail
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Date: 19 Jul 90 05:15:39 GMT
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In article <1990Jul18.215830.4385@laguna.ccsf.caltech.edu> ktl@wag240.caltech.edu (Kian-Tat Lim) writes:
>
>	In order to provide our users with a more transparent view of
>our network, we plan to centralize our /usr/spool/mail files on one
>machine, using NFS and symbolic links to access them on the others.
>
Seems to me one thing you need to worry about is whether it scales.
I'm aware that at MIT Project Athena they send the mail to three
post office servers, because they are serving 1000 workstations.
I'm not sure how many workstations you can serve with NFS mounting
a single /usr/spool/mail versus something like the post office protocol
that they use.

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