cfs & remailers

Mark C. Henderson markh at wimsey.bc.ca
Wed Aug 17 11:25:02 PDT 1994


> Another potential problem with sendmail->cfs interaction is that
> CFS doesn't implement NFS file locking.  This isn't much of an issue with
> a single host and a single instance of CFS, but could be a problem if the
> mailboxes are read and written by other machines or are remotely mounted
> by the machine running sendmail.

Some versions of sendmail support "dot locking", which effectively does 
away with this problem.

Mark






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