system@asuvax.UUCP (Marc Lesure) (09/26/88)
We want to develop a mail system server which will receive and store mail from remote systems. Users will be able to send, read, query their mail from any machine (regardless of OS) from a single point. Since most users here have 3-4 accounts on different machines, this will avoid having to check each system for mail. So we don't reinvent the wheel, is such a system already available? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Lesure / Arizona State University / Tempe, AZ "Between the world of men and make-believe, I can be found..." "False faces and meaningless chases, I travel alone..." "And where do you go when you come to the end of your dream?" UUCP: ...!ncar!noao!asuvax!lesure Internet/CSNET/ARPA: lesure@asuvax.asu.edu
andrew@cc.brunel.ac.uk (Andrew Findlay) (09/29/88)
In article <363@asuvax.UUCP> system@asuvax.UUCP (Marc Lesure) writes: >We want to develop a mail system server which will receive and store mail >from remote systems. Users will be able to send, read, query their mail >from any machine (regardless of OS) from a single point. Since most users >here have 3-4 accounts on different machines, this will avoid having to >check each system for mail. So we don't reinvent the wheel, is such a >system already available? Look at POP (Post Office Protocol), distributed as part of the MH Mail Handler and also used in other things (such as Sun's Lifeline Mail for PCs running PCNFS). Before starting a major project you should also think about the implications of X.400. This has the concept of a `message store' such as you propose. At Brunel we have a partial solution to the problem you describe: All networked machines use NFS so users only have a single home directory however many machines they might use. We put the mailbox in the home directory, so it is visible on all machines. Our case is perhaps simpler than most, as we only have to worry about Unix machines and PCs. Andrew -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- | From Andrew Findlay at Brunel University, Uxbridge, UB8 3PH, UK | | Andrew.Findlay@brunel.ac.uk phone: +44 895 74000 x2512 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------
page@swan.ulowell.edu (Bob Page) (10/04/88)
[I added comp.protocols.nfs to the newsgroups line, followups to comp.mail.misc] [The problem is how to make a user's mailbox available on any machine they log into] Andrew.Findlay@brunel.ac.uk (Andrew Findlay) wrote: >We put the mailbox in the [NFS] home directory, so it is visible >on all machines. How do you deal with record locking over NFS? We do something similar (we export /usr/spool/mail, a questionable practice in itself) but tell everyone to read mail from one host so their mail doesn't get clobbered. I'd like to find a better way. ..Bob -- Bob Page, U of Lowell CS Dept. page@swan.ulowell.edu ulowell!page
root@dutentb.UUCP (The System Administrator) (05/23/89)
The idea: we want to use one machine as the mail server in a cluster of machines. All machines (HP, Sun, Apollo) will mount the mail spool area, and sendmail will be the server. We want to hide the name of all the clients: we need sendmail config files and may be some extra software. The mail server has an uucp link with the outside world. We are looking for sendmail config files and/or some extra programs. Who as done this already, and can help us with some data? -- Delft University of Technology Phone: 3115 - 786234 Department of Electrical Engineering Telefax: 3115 - 783622 Mekelweg 4, Delft 2628 CD email: ..!mcvax!hp4nl!dutentb!root The Netherlands