Slow on SunOS 4.1.4 (Eudora mailer)

[Charlie Brady]

On Wed, 5 Nov 1997, Paul Ostro wrote:

> I have a problem with __extremely__ slow performance using the Eudora
> mailtool. Both the executables and the mailbox are on (different) Samba
> servers. 

[snip]

> Does anybody recognise these symptoms, please? Have I missed a key
> configuration parameter? 

You haven't mentioned what version of samba you have used.

This is just guessing, but grab the latest samba, and then look at the
various options for locking. I strongly suspect that your performace
problems are related to locking issues.

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