[Dovecot] A few words about NFS please?

Charlie Brady charlieb-dovecot at e-smith.com
Wed Feb 16 16:27:55 EET 2005


On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Jeff A. Earickson wrote:

> Could you say a few words about Dovecot and POP/IMAP to
> an NFS mounted filesystem?
...
> Mail is stored in mbox format.

I'd say if you are interested in mailbox corruption, then mbox format on 
NFS is a pretty good direction to head. If you have users who accumulate 
large mailboxes (who doesn't?), you might see poor performance as well.

--
Charlie

A: Because we read from top to bottom, left to right.
Q: Why should i start my reply below the quoted text?




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