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From: datri@convex.com (Anthony A. Datri)
Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew
Subject: Re: Why isn't ATK more widely used?
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Date: 27 Jul 90 20:16:00 GMT
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>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.

What I've got is /var/spool/mail mounted from the server, which is where
mail is also directed via an alias.  My concern is that AMS/Messages might
read /var/spool/mail/datri (for example) and truncate it at the same time
that binmail on the server is trying to deliver new mail into that mailbox.
The client machine's sendmail.cf has Sun's "OR" flag set so that local
mail is sent to the server's sendmail instead of the local one.  Thus, local
binmail and sendmail never write.

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