[ILUG] port Scanner & iptables stuff

[Stephen Shirley]

On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 09:52:02AM +0100, Wynne, Conor wrote:
> My SMTP server is also rejecting me when I try and send mail to the net,
> fetchmail pulls it down. I gave up on pop3 and went with Glens idea of
> sharing /var/spool/mail over NFS. Works grand as I only have *nix.

I _hope_ you're not sharing mbox format files over nfs.... Very bad
idea. They don't have standardised locking and are inclined to get 
corrupted. If you have to share over nfs, make sure you're using 
something like maildir - it's designed to be nfs-safe. Mbox is most
certainly not.

Steve
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