On Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 03:07:34PM +0100, Michael Megan wrote:
[...]
> What is the general strategy for implementing email on a multi-machine site
> such that email access is transparent to the user using standard email clients
> (such as elm, pine, mutt etc.)
>> The network I'm envisioning would involve nfs mounted home directories. The
> idea would be for a user to log into any of the workstations and transparently
> access their email.
[...]
That seems to be the way the Unix network (SunOS/Solaris) at work is set up.
All mail gets delivered to /var/mail/NAME on your desk machine but - like
your home directory - is available via NFS on any other machine. As others
have pointed out, there seem to be pitfalls in this setup, however, "our"
setup seems to work fine (inclusing using procmail and the likes).
But then again, I'm not the SysAdmin, so I have no idea through which loops
they had to jump to get it working... :-}
Cheerio,
Thomas
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