From: deletethis@invalid.lan   
      
   On Thu, 18 Dec 2025 06:32:09 +0000, Henrik Carlqvist wrote:   
      
   > On Thu, 18 Dec 2025 14:11:30 +1000, noel wrote:   
   >> oh so sendmail ... runs with NFS now too?   
   >   
   > What would be the problem with sendmail and NFS? As long as I can   
   > remember, sendmail has worked fine with /var/spool/mail mounted by NFS.   
   > This means that mail sent to user1@host1 can also be read by user1 from   
   > host2 if host1 and host2 mount the same NFS export as their /var/spool/   
   > mail.   
   >   
   > regards Henrik   
      
      
   long term problem with NFS and mbox format, many isps's found it didnt   
   work well, think multiple front ends (we had a couple dozen at peak)   
   writing to the same user at once, thats why clustered file systems were   
   popular with sendmail because the filesystem would only allow one-write-a-   
   time, that however in itself introduced more complexity and higher   
   breakage, its why most of us avoid it and went back to ol' faithul NFS,   
   and maildir moving away from sendmail to postfix gave us all so much   
   pluses.   
      
   I used to be one of sendmails biggest fan in the 90's and early 2000's,   
   but when something far better and less complex comes along (because we   
   all know more complexity = more possible links in teh chain to fail, not   
   to mention all others who have to manage those servers have to be woith   
   it all as well),  after 6 months I regretted not moving our systems over   
   to postfix sooner, it was 2008 when I made that move.   
      
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