mailscanner, queue & nfs

[Julian Field]

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Alessandro Dentella wrote:
> Would the same problems arise with imap server if I have a server for
> postfix/mailscanner dropping files in an nfs mounted dir for courier imap/pop?
>   
Does courier use maildir format? If so, you're okay for doing that, as 
maildir is designed to be NFS-safe. If it's not maildir, but something 
closer to mbox, then don't do it. We used to do that here, and the 
program that effectively just "cat"s a message onto the end of their 
mailbox is an enormous very carefully written piece of code (about 50k 
of C source if I remember rightly), to be sure that it was done 
correctly. Don't go there, it hurts :-)

Jules

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