incoming directory

[Julian Field]

At 20:43 25/11/2002, you wrote:
>Just to clarify, I didn't mean the mqueue.in directory, I meant the
>directory where mailscanner does its scratch work, "Incoming Work Dir"
>in the 3.x config file.  I could be wrong, but I assume from the usage
>patterns in my mqueue.in directory that it keeps the message in there
>until it's done doing the "work".  So, if the power were to go out, I'd
>lose the "work", but not the message.  I'm ok with that.
>
>(but if that's not a correct assumption on my part, I'd be happy to
>hear it)

You're right, it doesn't remove anything from the incoming queue until the
output message is safely in the output queue. So no power out can lose any
messages.
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