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- From: mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
- Subject: Re: reading mail from multiple machines
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.190500.14678@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
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- References: <1992Nov2.143532.7287@cc.gatech.edu> <1604@airgun.wg.waii.com> <1992Nov5.205249.2350@zia.aoc.nrao.edu>
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 19:05:00 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov5.205249.2350@zia.aoc.nrao.edu>
- rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner) writes:
- >
- > First and foremost, to avoid the problems with locking, permissions,
- > etc. etc., make sure any given user's mail is only *delivered* to one
- > system - preferably the one serving /var/spool/mail, since that's the
- > most efficient and totally avoids any delivery locking problems.
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- Indeed, all mail here is delivered through a central machine running
- BSD, and it works fine.
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- Well, almost. Since the "central machine" in question has an even more
- losing NFS implementation than average, locking doesn't work, and all
- the mail readers have to be configure to use `.lock' files.
- Unfortunately, *since I don't have source*, I can't do this very easily
- to the standard mail readers, except by simply installing the BSD code.
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