25 Jul
2003
25 Jul
'03
5:21 p.m.
On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 15:11:17 +1200 Adam Shand adam@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.
-- Matthias Andree