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From: cball@ishmael
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: central mail server
Message-ID: <129500001@ishmael>
Date: 4 Oct 88 16:22:00 GMT
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>/* Written  8:44 pm  Oct  3, 1988 by page@ulowell.UUCP in ishmael:comp.mail.misc */
>...
>Andrew.Findlay@brunel.ac.uk (Andrew Findlay) wrote:
>>We put the mailbox in the [NFS] home directory, so it is visible
>>on all machines.
>
>How do you deal with record locking over NFS?
>...

It's possible to avoid the record locking problem by automatically adjusting
.forward files or aliases to match the host you are currently logged into.
This can easily be done during login initialization.

Charles Ball
Intermetrics, Inc.