[comp.mail.sendmail] Mail in homedirectories

lab@spader.cgl.se (Lars Berntzon) (04/26/91)

Hello everyone!
At my company we have many Sun-machines where each one has the /var/spool/mail-
directory NFS-mounted from a central mail server, this is a big problem when
the mail-server goes down, due to the hard-mounting no one can login.

This problem made me think about not having the mail-files mounted, but rather
have them at the users home directory, say ~/Mailbox, and then reconfigure the
sendmail.cf- and /usr/lib/Mail.rc files to deliver and read mail from the
~/Mailbox instead.
Has anyone done this before, is it possible, what problem might i run into ?
I will appreciate every answer.

Thanks in advance !

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Lars Berntzon			lab@techno.sth.cgl.se
CGL Techno
Sweden