incoming directory

Martin Sapsed m.sapsed at BANGOR.AC.UK
Mon Nov 25 18:41:27 GMT 2002


John Rudd wrote:
> Has anyone explored the bennefits or problems with putting the incoming
> directory onto a ramdisk?  I know mailscanner preferes to have it on the
> same partition as the mail queue directories, but I'm wondering if it
> might be faster (for the scanning part of the process).

Isn't the scary thought that if the power goes you lose all the incoming
mail that hasn't been processed yet? (or do you have a truly UPS?)

Cheers,

Martin

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Martin Sapsed
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University of Wales, Bangor             Jesus of Nazareth



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