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Thanks to all to answered. Majority said its perfectly okay to nfs mount
/var/spool/mail. They have been doing it for years.
You just need to make sure the mount is hard and actimeo=0.
Answers are attached.
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I always mount mail. Make sure you do not do a soft mount. The mount options should be: -rw,hard,intr,nosuid
Don't cache mount mail either.
You can also change your sendmail.cf on the clients to receive mail on the server, instead of their workststion. As the server tends to be more stable there is less missed mail, as when a workststion is down for some reason, or has changed names.
Rick ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Rick Reineman Lasers CAD&UNIX Systems Management Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory reineman1@llnl.gov
> From sun-managers-relay@ra.mcs.anl.gov Tue Dec 2 03:16 PST 1997 > Sender: sun-managers-relay@ra.mcs.anl.gov > Date: Tue, 02 Dec 1997 11:51:18 +0200 > From: Gautam Das <gautam@bwc.org> > To: Sun Managers List <sun-managers@ra.mcs.anl.gov> > Subject: nfs mounted /var/spool/mail > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > Is there a chance of flakiness if /var/spool/mail is nfs mounted? > Any known problems? > > Clients are SunOS 4.1.3 , NFS servers are 4.1.3 and Solaris 2.6. > > Thanks, > > Gautam >
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On Tue, 2 Dec 1997, Gautam Das wrote: > Is there a chance of flakiness if /var/spool/mail is nfs mounted? > Any known problems? > > Clients are SunOS 4.1.3 , NFS servers are 4.1.3 and Solaris 2.6. >
Yes, there is a good chance of flakiness. File locking over NFS has always been somewhat problematic, and I wouldn't be surprised if mixing OS version makes things worse. If your users really want to be able to read mail from a remote server with a client running on the local machine, I would suggest you install an POP or IMAP server on your mail server (personally I think IMAP is the right way to go, and POP is an abomination, but your mileage may vary) and deploy a POP/IMAP capable client like the Solstice Internet Mail Client or Netscape Communicator 4.0.
benji
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;-) Due to massive amounts of caffeine & sleep deprivation, Gautam Das said:
>Is there a chance of flakiness if /var/spool/mail is nfs mounted? >Any known problems? > >Clients are SunOS 4.1.3 , NFS servers are 4.1.3 and Solaris 2.6.
This also depends on what MTA you're running (mail daemon... i.e. sendmail, qmail, etc.)
If you're running any type of sendmail, or if you're running qmail with _Mailbox_ support, then you definately do run the risk of corrupting mailboxes with multiple deliveries due to inadequate file locking across NFS. However, if you are running qmail with /Maildir support, then file locking is not required and it's perfectly safe to mount the mail directories (as Qmail's default is to store the user's mail directories in their own home directory) via NFS.
I'll be honest: Qmail is _not_ a direct Sendmail replacement... a few programs need to be patched to run with qmail, configuring qmail is much easier (you don't need a book, unlike sendmail) qmail has been proven perfectly secure so far (there's a $1000 reward if you can get a program to run on the machine as someone other than yourself because of qmail -- it hasn't been collected yet) and it's an order of magnatude faster than sendmail -- an Intel 486DX2/66 with 32Megs RAM, IDE hard drive, Linux and Qmail will outperform a Pentium 133 with 64Megs RAM, SCSI hard drive, Linux and sendmail... found that out myself!
I've been running a beta Qmail for 18 months with no security or any other problems -- If you want, check it out at www.qmail.org for more info.
Hope this helps, Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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Gautam> Is there a chance of flakiness if /var/spool/mail is nfs Gautam> mounted? Any known problems?
That's how I run it for a couple of Sparc/Solaris 2.5.1 machines, and I've had no problems in over a year. I used one of the O'Reilly books as a reference when I set it up, and that pointed out making sure that the vfstab file mounts the mail directory rw,hard,noac for proper behavior. This is what I use.
Hope this helps,
CJW
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On Tuesday, December 02, 1997 4:51 AM, Gautam Das [SMTP:gautam@bwc.org] wrote: > Is there a chance of flakiness if /var/spool/mail is nfs mounted? > Any known problems? > > Clients are SunOS 4.1.3 , NFS servers are 4.1.3 and Solaris 2.6. > > Thanks, > > Gautam We have it mounted here... no problems, as long as in the vfstab file the entry looks like:
machine:/var/spool/mail - /var/spool/mail nfs - yes actime=0
==================================================== Patrick Patterson Tel: (514) 335-3015 x228 Network Systems Analyst Fax: (514) 335-1614 General DataComm - Multimedia Research Center E-Mail: sys-admin@gdc.ca
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obviously you must mount it with option "hard" if you expect to avoid data loss/corruption. other than that, it should work reasonably well except for the problems caused by user root trying to write mail locally and failing because of the nfs root->nobody default conversion on NFS mounts. the fix for that it to forward root mail on all client machines to the mail server, which usually works.
> From sun-managers-relay@ra.mcs.anl.gov Tue Dec 2 05:03:47 1997 > From: Gautam Das <gautam@bwc.org> > Organization: Baha'i World Centre > X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.6 sun4u) > Mime-Version: 1.0 > To: Sun Managers List <sun-managers@ra.mcs.anl.gov> > Subject: nfs mounted /var/spool/mail > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > Is there a chance of flakiness if /var/spool/mail is nfs mounted? > Any known problems? > > Clients are SunOS 4.1.3 , NFS servers are 4.1.3 and Solaris 2.6. > > Thanks, > > Gautam >
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We do it....no problems, Make sure you do this: actimeo=0 in the options like so: mailmachine:/var/mail - /var/mail nfs - yes hard,intr,bg,actimeo=0 Roger
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I personally am quite uncomfortable with a mounted /var/spool/mail, but it is a very common practice. Many years ago I was the software engineer responsible for all email software for a major workstation vendor. The code for many of the programs manipulating the mail spool files was very intolerant of network issues, never checking return codes under the assumption that if the program ran at all, then the local disk (i.e. the disk hosting the mail spool) was working fine. There were race conditions that on occasion could cause a user's entire incoming messages file to be lost. In practice, this did not appear to happen.
Since, I've been administering a number of Unix systems, most recently Solaris 2.5 (and SunOS 4.1.3), and haven't seen any problems with a mounted mail spool. I DO see an occasional problem with my own email, loosing a couple of new messages every once in a while, but I think the problem is CDE 1.0.1's dtmail. For what I do, this has not be a big problem, but I think it confirms that Sun's email code base is similar to that I had maintained.
-Marc
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No flakiness, been doing it for several years, although I've noticed the serving host wants the actimeo parameter to be set, as in:
ldn71:/var/mail - /var/mail nfs - yes actimeo=0
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Hello,
we nfsmount /var/spool/mail on /import/mail from an AlphaServer to DECUNIX 4.0B and Solaris 2.5 clients without any problem.
You just have to setenv MAIL to be /import/mail/$USER .
Christophe.
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On Tue, 2 Dec 1997, Gautam Das wrote:
> Is there a chance of flakiness if /var/spool/mail is nfs mounted? > Any known problems? > > Clients are SunOS 4.1.3 , NFS servers are 4.1.3 and Solaris 2.6. > > Thanks, > > Gautam >
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