queues on NFS share

[Julian Field]

At 12:32 13/08/2002, you wrote:
>I want to have my mailscanner incoming and outgoing queues on an NFS
>share. Do I need to anything special to make it work? Any help would be
>appreciated.

This is generally a really bad idea. I think you'll get away with doing
this with Exim.

You will not get away with it if you are using sendmail. The file locking
sendmail uses doesn't work over NFS. Bad things will happen to your mail.
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