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From: nowicki%rose@Sun.COM (Bill Nowicki)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: central mail server
Summary: Fixed in 4.0
Keywords: mail
Message-ID: <71964@sun.uucp>
Date: 6 Oct 88 21:37:42 GMT
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> 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?

The standard mail software does not use record locking, so it is not an
issue.  Note that in SunOS 4.0 the scheme using NFS to mount your
mailbox (now /var/spool/mail) is fully supported.  All you need to do
is add the appropriate entry to /etc/fstab, and the rest should all
work automagically.  The standard sendmail.cf files route outgoing mail
through the server, so that even the replies go to the server
directly.  We have been running here for quite some time with mail
boxes on servers, and it works well (unbiased opinion :-).

	-- WIN