On 01-04-2023 20:38, Rowland Penny via samba wrote: > > > On 01/04/2023 19:10, Gary Dale via samba wrote: > > >> I tried using Samba once rather than NFS but that broke things. I keep my mail on the server and Thunderbird didn't work properly. Reverting to NFS fixed that. Also, Samba shares seemed slower and less reliable. NFS just works. > > I use Thunderbird on a Unix domain member and apart from an annoying Thunderbird bug, everything works okay. I don't know if this plays a role for this discussion or if it is still the case, but when using Dovecot as MDA, using a cifs/samba share for the mailbox is not recommended per Dovecot documentation: https://wiki.dovecot.org/MailLocation/SharedDisk Paul