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From: mellon@nigiri.pa.dec.com (Ted Lemon)
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Subject: Re: can't receive mail on Diskless server
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Date: 4 Mar 91 05:17:55 GMT
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In-Reply-To: mamros@cavedog.irc.cbm.dec.com's message of 28 Feb 91 15:44:02 GMT


More to the point, though, running sendmail on a diskless client is a
_bad_ idea; some mail delivery agents depend on file system semantics
that are not present with NFS.   It is not unheard of for you to wind
up with a corrupt mail file when two mail agents try to deliver at the
same time.

It's probably better to use something like POP from your file server,
or do the "inc" with an rsh to the file server, since the Unix file
system semantics should presumably work there.

			       _MelloN_