[OpenAFS] Qmail over AFS

[Russ Allbery]

Chris Snyder <csnyder@mvpsoft.com> writes:

> I'm currently trying to get Qmail to deliver messages to users' homedirs
> that are on AFS.  I'm running into one problem, however, in that qmail
> requires that the users' directories not be world-writeable, which is
> not a problem, except that qmail doesn't understand AFS ACL's.  I tried
> doing a standard chmod on the homedir, and it is showing as not being
> world-writeable, but qmail is still complaining.  Any ideas on what is
> going on?

What is qmail saying exactly?  (Is the home directory owned by the user?
AFS creates volumes with the top-level directory owned by UID 0 by
default.)

Note, btw, that delivery to a maildir requires cross-directory hard links,
which are not supported in AFS.

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>