[OpenAFS] Mail delivery into OpenAFS

[Patrick J. LoPresti]

Ian Delahorne <ian@assv.net> writes:

> Nathan Ward <nward@esphion.com> writes:
> 
> > Is anyone else doing something similar?  Any gotchas?
> 
> Yes, if AFS goes down, you lose mail. Make people use IMAP with
> GSSAPI.

qmail *never* loses mail unless the file system loses files.

At worst, qmail will get a permanent failure while writing and bounce
the message back to the sender.  This is not ideal, but it is not the
same as "losing" the message.

Ensuring that qmail treats temporary AFS outages as temporary (rather
than permanent) failures should not be very hard.

Getting all this right takes a little care, but it really is not
rocket science...

 - Pat