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You can savely share a message base among multiple computers in a Lan Manager
(OS/2 Peer, Windows Network, SMB Network, ...) network as long as no Linux
or Unix computer is involved.
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You can place the message base on a Linux/Unix fileserver running samba only
as long as no fidonet software is running on the file server, no Linux or
Unix client is involved, and all other clients take care that only one
Fidonet program at a time is being run. (This includes not only the tosser
and maintenance programs, but also the mail editor itself).
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There currently is not any way to savely share a Squish, JAM or Hudson
message base between computers if any of the computers is a Linux or Unix
machine. If you want to run Fido on the Linux box, the Linux box has to have
its own messagebase (usually meaning that you must install it as sysop point
or similar).
If you do not obey to these three rules, you sooner or later will experiences
loss or corruption of mails and mail areas. Sorry to say so.
But what if you absolutely have to share a message base between multiple
Linux/Unix or Linux/Unix and Non-Unix computers? There is only one solution
to this problem: Use a message base format that does not require access
synchronisation. While the Squish, JAM and Hudson message base formats to
require access synchronisation because they store multiple mails in a single
file, the Fido *.MSG (also known as Opus) message base format does not have
this restriction because each mail is stored in a separate file. So Fido
*.MSG presently is the only way to go if you want to share your message base
between Linux/Unix and Non-Unix or other Unix computers.
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