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List:       pine-info
Subject:    Re: inbox gets corrupted --repost
From:       Shivaji Navale <shivaji () ee ! iitb ! ac ! in>
Date:       2003-12-10 9:19:09
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Thanks a lot, i got to know where the problem is now and how it can be
resolved, after a long period of head cracking.

thanks again to the GURU's at PINE

regards,
shivaji

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On Sun, 7 Dec 2003, Nancy McGough wrote:

> > > > On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, Shivaji Navale wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >  We have this peculiar problem for the Mailboxes of users
> > > > >  /var/spool/mail/username.
> > > > >  The mailboxes get corrupted asto the first 20-26 lines of mailbox get
> > > > >  DELETED.
> > > > >
> > > > >  I had gone through the doc on the pine site regarding the locking problme
> > > > >  over NFS. how can this problem be  overcome.
> > > > >
> > > > >  We are using 2.4.20-18.8.um.1 kernel on the (LVS Director) which exports
> > > > >  the mail partition to 30 NFS/NIS clients.
>
> On 7 Dec 2003 Shivaji Navale (shivaji@ee.iitb.ac.in) wrote:
> > We donot have any disk quotas enabled on the /var/spool/mail partition.
> > I did come to know from the docs on the site, that this kind of problem is
> > due to  appending of the mailbox, even while pine is holding the mailbox
> > in NFS.
> >
> > This problem is flaring and many users complain of this mailbox errors.
> > We had upgraded to pine4.58 now.
> >
> > How would this problem be overcome.
>
>
> I don't have experience with Pine and NFS but I have been reading
> the Pine discussion groups for years and I think the consensus is
> "Don't do that!" It is much more robust to set up an IMAP server
> and access those mailboxes via IMAP rather than using direct file
> access. When you built Pine, the UW imap daemon was also built so
> all you need to do is install it, turn it on, and change
> inbox-path to something like:
>
>  inbox-path={your.imap.server/user=UID}INBOX
>
> and with luck, the corruption problems will be solved.
>
> Also, make sure that you read this FAQ
>
>  <http://www.washington.edu/pine/faq/sysadmins.html#11.5>
>
> which discusses the importance of /var/spool/mail having 1777
> permission.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Nancy
>
> --
> Nancy McGough
> Infinite Ink ~ <http://www.ii.com>
> Deflexion & Reflexion ~ <http://deflexion.com>
>

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