incoming directory

[Peter Peters]

On Mon, 25 Nov 2002 18:41:27 +0000, you wrote:

>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?)

That doesn't allways work. Our no-break system was still operating when
our servers where nothing more than molten steel and some smoke in the
wind.

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Peter Peters
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