On Tuesday 15 Feb 2005 7:22 pm, Jeff A. Earickson wrote:
I would like to use Dovecot for both POP and IMAP on the two machines. I know NFS is frowned upon, but this has worked for me. Comments and suggestions, please?
Why mbox? Have you read the original maildir documentation by DJB?
http://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html
Strikes me that you could deliver it over NFS to the box running IMAP using maildir, with reasonable confidence this is how everything was designed to work. Although you need to check how things like .forward would be handled.
My experience of email over NFS like you have is that it does work well enough. No doubt large implementations may have some fun with NFS locking. But these days I see little need for small organisation to use more than one box for email, providing MTA and IMAP, in which case NFS is an unneeded complication.