High Availability Mail Boxes under NFS?

[Phil Hutto]

I'm pretty sure that this has been discussed before but I couldn't find
the back articles.

In our networked system of Sun 3/50's and 60's, I want to be able to
access my mailbox (/usr/spool/mail/pwh) from any workstation. We use Sun
OS 3.5 with NFS. If I remote mount /usr/spool/mail on all workstations a
synchronization problem arises when two machines concurrently deliver or
read mail. The same synch problem occurs using the uglier solution of
piping mail via .forward to a directory that is mounted everywhere. What's
the solution to this mess?

Thanks!

phil hutto

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