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From: page@swan.ulowell.edu (Bob Page)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted,comp.mail.misc,comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: central mail server
Keywords: mail
Message-ID: <9449@swan.ulowell.edu>
Date: 4 Oct 88 00:44:00 GMT
References: <363@asuvax.UUCP> <464@Terra.cc.brunel.ac.uk>
Reply-To: page@swan.ulowell.edu (Bob Page)
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Organization: University of Lowell, Computer Science Dept.
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[The problem is how to make a user's mailbox available on any machine
 they log into]

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?

We do something similar (we export /usr/spool/mail, a questionable
practice in itself) but tell everyone to read mail from one host so
their mail doesn't get clobbered.

I'd like to find a better way.

..Bob
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Bob Page, U of Lowell CS Dept.  page@swan.ulowell.edu  ulowell!page