Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: NFS in 2.1.130?? | Date | Wed, 02 Dec 1998 14:58:19 +0800 | From | David Luyer <> |
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Chip Salzenberg wrote: > According to Alan Cox: > > procmail style dot locking works over NFS. > > So does Deliver, if it's compiled with -DHAS_NFS. Unfortunately, the > Debian distribution of Deliver isn't. So I recommend that Debian users > of Deliver compile it on their own.
Especially as the default 'deliver' does flock() locking, the default 'qpopper' does fcntl() locking (flock() but with a flock.c which really does fcntl()) and the net result is large amounts of mail bounces which sendmail doesn't handle well and bounces a whole mass of messages when it sees the first error. So yes, Debian users should compile their own deliver and/or qpopper and/or other mail programs. This is one area Debian is currently lacking - there's no "Debian mail locking standard" evident.
Debian's 'deliver' also doesn't send comsat ("biff") messages. I have a patch if anyone's interested and able to get it into 'deliver', since all addresses in the source code end up in mail bounces.
[sudden awakening]
Oh, and the person I could never contact re: deliver since the e-mail addresses in the source code all bounce...
Chip Salzenberg <chip@fin.uucp> <chip%fin.uucp@dg-rtp.dg.com> <dg-rtp!fin!chip>
...hello, there :-) I'll send you the patch to send messages to comsat if you'd be interested, it's a change to mbox.c in deliver-2.1.13.
David.
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