Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!unido!ztivax!lbo From: lbo@ztivax.UUCP (Dr Lothar Borrmann) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail Subject: Re: Problem: mail spool area and .forward on different machines Message-ID: <2549@ztivax.UUCP> Date: 7 Nov 90 08:53:16 GMT References: <5476@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> <926@iiasa.UUCP> <1990Nov1.102200@ap.co.umist.ac.uk> Reply-To: lbo@ztivax.UUCP (Lothar Borrmann) Organization: Siemens AG, Munich, W-Germany Lines: 21 In article michael@uni-paderborn.de (Michael Schmidt) writes: > >We have ONE mail directory mounted on all machines, we are using. We >do local delivery to make "mail user" work (although we encourage to >use the full domain address). ... > >You have to ensure, that all mailers involved respect the same lock. >... I think there is one more problem involved here: Don't you run into trouble when a local mailer wants to do "local delivery" to the central mail directory via the network, and the net (or the node holding the mail directory) is temporarily down? I mean, the usual thing to do would be to hold the message in the sendmail queue but standard binmail (the usual local delivery agent) was not programmed to behave that way. So in this case the mail delivery would fail and the message would be returned to the sender, wouldn't it ? (I once hacked binmail to behave differently but never had time to test this thing ...)