[762] in Info-AFS_Redistribution
Re: mail & afs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (sommerfeld@apollo.hp.com)
Fri May 8 17:49:53 1992
Date: Fri, 8 May 92 15:57:04 -0400
From: sommerfeld@apollo.hp.com
To: louie@ni.umd.edu
Cc: Bob_Dew@alw.nih.gov, "Michael Niksch" <nik@zurich.ibm.com>,
In-Reply-To: "Louis A. Mamakos"'s message of Fri, 8 May 92 14:28:10 EDT
May 92 11:37:21 EDT
To: Bob_Dew@alw.nih.gov
Cc: Info-AFS@transarc.com, "Michael Niksch" <nik@zurich.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: mail & afs
Date: Fri, 8 May 92 14:28:10 EDT
From: louie@sayshell.umd.edu ("Louis A. Mamakos")
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.
Project Athena uses POP quite successfully, and (drawing on my
experience with that system) we've recently set up a POP mailhub here
in Chelmsford.
I'd advise against running "normal unix mail" to AFS; you're better
off either bringing up a POP-type system, or going all the way to AMS
(which is a big jump).
- Bill
