AIX Mail stored in AFS space

[Stephen Joyce]

Gregory:

You must be leaving out MANY details (such as how you handle permissions,
.forward files, filtering, etc) which can add complexity to setting
something such as this up.

We made some headway against some of the problems last year, but never
completely worked it out.  So we too are still using NFS mounted mail
directories to our imap and pop servers (and select workstations where uses
insist on using 'mail'); it works pretty well and scales fine for our small
cell.

That said, I'm still very interested to hear how other cells have solved
this problem.

Cheers,
Stephen
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On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Touretsky, Gregory wrote:

> Well, we are running our Unix mail server with mailboxes in user's home
> directories. 
> We had to compile sendmail with some fixes and use also reauth module that
> klogs every week or so
> Mailboxes are located under ~/.Mail/INBOX instead of /var/spool/mail
> It works fine.
> 
> Gregory Touretsky
> IDC Computing / Systems Engineering Group
> Unix Server Platforms
> gregory.touretsky@intel.com
> > (+) 972-4-865-6377, Fax: 04-865-5999
> iNET: 465-6377, M/S: IDC-1B
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: R McGee [mailto:mcgee@us.ibm.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 4:40 PM
> To: info-afs@transarc.com
> Subject: AIX Mail stored in AFS space
> 
> 
> We currently are in production at AIX 4.3.3 and AFS 3.5.  We have our mail
> set up through a central mail  server and NFS mount /var/spool/mail/ from
> that server to every client machine.  Of course, anytime we have a problem
> with our mail server, EVERYONE feels it and grumbles loudly.  We would like
> to convert to a mail scheme where the mail is delivered and stored in the
> users AFS home directory and the need for a NFS mount is eliminated.  I
> would be interested in hearing from anyone who has done this, with any
> associated problems, nuances, etc. and some direction on how to get it
> implemented.
> 
> All input is appreciated.
> 
> Rick McGee
> IBM Raleigh
> mcgee@us.ibm.com
> (919) 543-9299
> 
> 
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