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- From: ianh@resmel.bhp.com.au (Ian Hoyle)
- Subject: Re: Mail configuration
- Message-ID: <ianh.712222230@morgana>
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- Organization: BHP Research - Melbourne Laboratories, AUSTRALIA
- References: <3124@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <GREENDOG.92Jul26222136@max.physics.sunysb.edu>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 07:30:30 GMT
- Lines: 42
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- greendog@max.physics.sunysb.edu (Michael D Fischer) writes:
-
- >In article <3124@ra.nrl.navy.mil> loss@enews.nrl.navy.mil (Brian Loss) writes:
- >> I would like to configure the mail system on our
- >> network so that messages are available to a user no
- >> matter which machine he/she logs in to. Every
- >> machine on our system has one common disk mounted,
- >> and I would think we could just change the system
- >> mailboxes to be on that disk instead of on each
- >> machine's local disk. How would I go about doing
- >> something like this?
-
- >I just did this a week ago on our setup of 5 indigos and a 4D/440!
- >At first I mounted the master mail directory (on max, the 440) on
- >each indigo (via "mount max:/usr/mail /usr/mail") but then realized
- >that since the /usr disk on max was mounted on each indigo as /usr.max
- >I could just make a link (ln -s /usr.max/mail /usr/mail). Both methods
- >worked fine as long as the master computer's /etc/exports gives the
- >other machines root permission (i.e "/usr -access=<list machines here>,
- >root=<list machines again>).
-
- Another method would be to run an IMAP server on your main mail node
- and use a client mail reader from the other boxes.
-
- The latest release of Pine (v3.0.3 from ftp.cac.washington.edu) can use
- IMAP and has a nice user interface for mail users - it also supports
- MIME which is a *big* plus. There are several IMAP clients for Macs & PCs
- so this makes for a good, integrated mail environment with the mail still
- being stored on a central machine,
-
- ian
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