[756] in Info-AFS_Redistribution
Re: mail & afs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Louis A. Mamakos)
Fri May 8 14:31:35 1992
To: Bob_Dew@alw.nih.gov
Cc: Info-AFS@transarc.com, "Michael Niksch" <nik@zurich.ibm.com>
Reply-To: louie@ni.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 08 May 92 10:00:09 EDT."
Date: Fri, 08 May 92 11:37:02 -0400
From: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@sayshell.umd.edu>
The solution that we use in our workstation lab environment was to
modify the delivery agents to deliver mail to a directory called
'Maildrop' in his home directory. The original motiviation for this
approach was the the user's mailbox count as part of his disk quota
and didn't have to be seperately policed.
There is a single file in the Maildrop directory which is the user's
login name where the mail is stored in a format identical to
/usr/spool/mail/username. There are a forest of symbolic links in
/usr/spool/mail for compatiblity purposes.
While this seems to work, the post office machines which receive this
mail tend to thrash around their AFS cache quite a bit, as you might
expect. We're thinking right now about abandoning this idea, and
going to a POP/IMAP type solution in the future to lessen the load on
the post office machines and especially their cache and cache
managers.
We have around 5500 users in the cell and around 120 public
workstations in the cell, in addition to the various file servers,
etc.
louie
