Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!decwrl!sdd.hp.com!ucsd!ucbvax!THUMPER.BELLCORE.COM!nsb From: nsb@THUMPER.BELLCORE.COM (Nathaniel Borenstein) Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew Subject: Re: Why isn't ATK more widely used? Message-ID: Date: 27 Jul 90 13:57:09 GMT References: <104319@convex.convex.com> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 18 Excerpts from internet.info-andrew: 26-Jul-90 Re: Why isn't ATK more wide.. Anthony A. Datri@uunet.u (1545) > I would have liked more information about the whole mail-locking issue > when I set it up here. I *still* don't fully understand the issues > about mailbox locking, which is why I haven't announced the availability > of messages here. /var/spool/mail would be NFS mounted, and while I > haven't had any obvious problems on my workstation, I can't encourage my > users to use something that might lose their mail when it interacts with binmail on the mail server. AMS won't hurt you with having /var/spool/mail NFS-mounted, but sendmail/binmail will/might. You're living very dangerously if you're letting normal sendmail/binmail deliver mail into spool files on NFS. I recommend against it. However, if you're already doing that, I don't think AMS can make things any worse. -- Nathainel