Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!rochester!cornell!uw-beaver!Teknowledge.COM!unix!unix.sri.com!felix From: felix@ai.sri.com (Francois Felix INGRAND) Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh Subject: MH on an NFS mounted mail spool... You can loose mail... Message-ID: Date: 15 Nov 90 00:07:28 GMT Sender: news@unix.SRI.COM Distribution: comp Organization: SRI International, Menlo Park, CA Lines: 23 (Sun OS 4.0.3) All our mails are arriving on one machine, our mail server. The mail spool is then NFS mounted by the clients. Playing with our newly installed mh 6.7, I discovered that if I do a inc on a machine which is NFS mounting the mail spool, then I can loose mail... If you are using standard unix mail, you have the risk of not seeing the mail (as the server and the client disagree for a while on the status of the mail file in the spool), but for some reasons, inc seems to "clear" the spool file, even if it was believed empty... Is there any way to avoid this problem or fix this bug? Thanks in advance, -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Francois Felix INGRAND SRI International, AIC felix@AI.SRI.COM 333, Ravenswood Avenue (415) 859-5584 MENLO PARK, CA 94025, USA "Read my Lisp... No new syntax" (nil)