[Dovecot] Is dovecot NFS safe?

[Matthias Andree]

On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 15:11:17 +1200
Adam Shand <adam at personaltelco.net> wrote:

> I'm migrating our mailserver from cyrus 2.0 to Postfix and Dovecot.
> 
> We're using maildirs delivered to /var/maildir, which is mounted via
> NFS from a Netapp.  My understanding was that maildir was completely
> happy in an NFS environment but I've seen a couple messages here
> recently which mention the dovecot index files not being NFS safe.
> 
> Are their any caveats or gotcha's that I need to be aware of?

Well, Postfix delivering to Maildir mailboxes is a matter that Wietse
isn't particularly fond of. Make sure your mount options are correct in
that they provide synchronous link() and rename() semantics.

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Matthias Andree