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Article #3245Re: NFS mail
From: 'da Kingfish
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 1989 22:28
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 1989 22:28
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We do this on a large apollo ring (not with NFS). I wrote versions of open and flock that use Apollo's ios_$ calls and take care of locking and concurrency control correctly in the Apollo environment. There, all the machines just call themselves the same thing (caen.engin.umich.edu) and we depend on looking at received-by lines to see when and where the message was generated (we use Apollo uids for message ids). For NFS setups we have all the drone machines forward all mail to the master. The master has the /usr/spool/mail directory, the drones have mqueues. Then the normal sendmail queueing will take care of retries, etc. It also makes things easier relative to locking and root access over NFS, etc. --paul
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Subject: Re: NFS mail
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