[tech] IMAP and NFS

Mikolaj J. Habryn dichro-evo at rcpt.to
Mon Aug 6 10:13:02 WST 2001


On 05 Aug 2001 16:57:57 +0800, Anil Sharma  wrote:
> was reading some imapd docs, and they specifically stated not to use IMAP
> with NFS due to file locking problems (resulting in silently lost
> email).  Is this a problem with UCC atm?

Funny. I have over half a million mailboxes served purely over NFS to
IMAP servers without any problems whatsoever. What the docs probably
should have said was "don't use UW-imapd, because it's broken, broken,
broken".

m, not ranting about lockless maildirs at all.




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