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From: lab@spader.cgl.se (Lars Berntzon)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Mail in homedirectories
Keywords: mail-file,NFS-hanging
Message-ID: <475@spader.cgl.se>
Date: 25 Apr 91 18:07:06 GMT
Organization: CGL Techno AB, Kista, Sweden
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Hello everyone!
At my company we have many Sun-machines where each one has the /var/spool/mail-
directory NFS-mounted from a central mail server, this is a big problem when
the mail-server goes down, due to the hard-mounting no one can login.

This problem made me think about not having the mail-files mounted, but rather
have them at the users home directory, say ~/Mailbox, and then reconfigure the
sendmail.cf- and /usr/lib/Mail.rc files to deliver and read mail from the
~/Mailbox instead.
Has anyone done this before, is it possible, what problem might i run into ?
I will appreciate every answer.

Thanks in advance !

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Lars Berntzon			lab@techno.sth.cgl.se
CGL Techno
Sweden