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Article #1079Re: Frequency of NFS lock problems w/ NFS mounted mail spool
From: Stan Janet
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1992 18:40
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1992 18:40
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In article <AULTJ.92Sep1150109@caleb.rpi.edu> aultj@rpi.edu (Jim Ault) writes:
>We have over 350 client workstations (half Suns, half IBMs) mounting a
>single mail directory (from a Sun) read-write, and all of them forward
>mail to the server for local delivery. This machine is also used as a
>forwarding machine for mail that goes off campus. It has not broken
>down yet (but we have been seeing some high loads lately).
Is there some reason you want your clients forwarding outgoing mail to
the server instead of transmitting it off campus themselves? As long as
you put a "Reply-To: <user>@<server>" line in the header, replies should
go to the server, and the server will be much less of a bottleneck.
You'd probably need a way to update all the non-diskless clients'
/etc/sendmail.cf files from time to time, but with so many workstations,
I bet you've already had to find a mechanism to do that sort of thing.
-- Stan Janet
stan@magi.ncsl.nist.gov
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!dove!beldar.ncsl.nist.gov!stan From: stan@beldar.ncsl.nist.gov (Stan Janet) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.protocols.nfs,comp.mail.elm,comp.unix.admin,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.ultrix Subject: Re: Frequency of NFS lock problems w/ NFS mounted mail spool Message-ID: <5388@dove.nist.gov> Date: 4 Sep 92 18:40:34 GMT References: <1992Aug30.032843.8468@ddsw1.mcs.com> <LINDA.92Sep1135545@matisse.uni-paderborn.de> <AULTJ.92Sep1150109@caleb.rpi.edu> Sender: news@dove.nist.gov Reply-To: stan@magi.ncsl.nist.gov Followup-To: comp.mail.misc Organization: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD Lines: 18