[OpenAFS] Mail delivery (With maildir) to openafs spool

[Hamish Marson]

jon+openafs@silicide.dk wrote:

>On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 11:06:40AM +0100, Hamish Marson wrote:
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>>Hi all.
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>>I've asked this question on the postfix mailing list (And been knocked 
>>back a bit :), but thought I'd ask here anyway, since things appear to 
>>be inconclusive so far...
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>>Is anyone curently using AFS volumes as the mail spool for delivering 
>>email using postfix or does anyone know any reason why it would be a bad 
>>idea to doit? I've searched the web a fair bit & the closest I've come 
>>to an answer is Richard Campbells book saying some people are doing it, 
>>but no details.
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>We just dicussed it last week? Did you check the archives?
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Yes... I even searched with google... Do you remember the subject? And 
I'll try searching again...

One response I got from a postfix person was

>You can pay for people or you can pay for equipment.
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>Regardless, AFS is the solution to a different problem.
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>With AFS you can't use maildir, because hard links work
>only within a directory.
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>With AFS you can't use mailbox, because the file system
>copies files back and forth.
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>In both cases, AFS breaks the safety guarantees of fsync.
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>Who says it is safe to expose AFS to the raw internet?
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TIA

Hamish.

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