[OpenAFS] Mail delivery into OpenAFS
Nathan Neulinger
nneul@umr.edu
06 Jul 2003 18:56:39 -0500
Additionally, use perdition if you want an easy way to spread mailboxes
across multiple hosts without having to do special configuration
per-user.
-- Nathan
On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 18:41, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Nathan Ward <nward@esphion.com> writes:
>
> > Is anyone doing this? I assume so..
>
> It's considered a really bad idea by pretty much everyone I know who's run
> AFS for a long time to try to deliver mail into AFS. The performance
> sucks, among other problems.
>
> Get your mail clients to use IMAP. It's much, much nicer. Failing that,
> you can do what we did here at Stanford and just wrap them all with
> programs that download their mail via POP into their home directories.
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