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- From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: Re: NFS automounted home directories and .forward files
- Date: 18 Aug 1992 04:42:01 GMT
- Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
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- References: <1992Aug18.002726.29236@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>
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- In article <1992Aug18.002726.29236@blaze.cs.jhu.edu> bogstad@blaze.cs.jhu.edu (Bill Bogstad) writes:
- >My problem is that whenever mail for a
- >user comes in; the server machine has to automount their home directory in
- >order to determine if they have a .forward file.
-
- At our site, we don't mount user home directories on our mail server, so we
- don't use .forward files. Instead, we let people have access to the
- aliases file. Unfortunately, this may not be appropriate at an university
- site like yours.
-
- You could create a parallel set of home directories on the mail server,
- just for containing .forward files. You can either teach your users to
- refer to these files instead of their regular .forward files, or you could
- create symbolic links to them from users' directories.
- --
- Barry Margolin
- System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.
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