NFS automounting. Stable for mail servers?

[Brian Candler]

On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 04:42:45PM -0400, Francisco Reyes wrote:
> >What would you expect the front-end to do if a user whose mail is on
> >/mail-server1 connects, but /mail-server1 is down?
> 
> That connection, for that one user, should freeze or fail.
> What I am looking for is to not affect users from /mail-server2 on the same 
> mail client. 

And this doesn't happen with soft mounts (-o soft) ?