[Dovecot] Re: Is dovecot NFS safe?

[Matthias Andree]

Adam Shand <adam at personaltelco.net> writes:

>> Postfix delivering to NFS Maildir mailboxes... (Maildir on a local file
>> system works fine of course, mbox on NFS is inherently unreliable and
>> heavily dependent on working locking.)
>
> Isn't the main point of Maildir (as opposed to mbox) that it *is* NFS
> safe  and doesn't require working locking?

It is, and works (and has workarounds for non-idempotent NFS
operations), but Wietse doesn't exactly bless NFS no matter what format
you use.

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Matthias Andree