From: markh@wimsey.bc.ca (Mark C. Henderson)
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 94 11:25:02 PDT
To: Matt Blaze <wmo@digibd.com>
Subject: Re: cfs & remailers
Message-ID: <m0qapa9-0000UuC@vanbc.wimsey.com>
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> Another potential problem with sendmail->cfs interaction is that
> CFS doesn't implement NFS file locking.  This isn't much of an issue with
> a single host and a single instance of CFS, but could be a problem if the
> mailboxes are read and written by other machines or are remotely mounted
> by the machine running sendmail.

Some versions of sendmail support "dot locking", which effectively does 
away with this problem.

Mark