[tech] Sane mail

[Mark Tearle]

On Fri, 1 Nov 2002, Nick Bannon wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 12:05:18AM +0800, Grahame Bowland wrote:
> > I'm running this plan by you guys, I'm willing to implement it if
> > we want to do it.
>
> Great plan. In fact I think I'd prefer to skip the last step ;
>
> > Basically the idea is:
> >  * remove all NFS mounts on mooneye
> >  * set up things so that mail lands on mooneye
> ----skip this one----
> >     , mooneye then sends it on to morwong for delivery to mailboxes
> ---------------------
>
> mooneye can then run POP and IMAP servers directly. Most things will be
> able to access that, but we can wrap elm in a script to use "getmail"
> to suck mail to ~/Mail/mbox or similar. I'm not sure if there's a
> better way, but we can support procmail like that too.
>
> Nick.

No, that's dumb.  mooneye is exposed to the world and not the worlds
most reliable machine in any of it's nine lives.  The disk for the
mail spool is on morwong, the users are on morwong, Chewbacca's a
wookie, it just makes sense for mail to delivered on morwong.

Yours
Mark
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