writing to /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming

[Richard Frovarp]

Mark Nienberg wrote:
> I have /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming mounted as tmpfs.
>
> I have a mail related script (duplicate msg remover) that could 
> benefit from writing to tmpfs instead of physical disk.  Is it OK for 
> my script to use some space in MailScanner/incoming or does 
> MailScanner only expect to see it's own stuff in there?
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
>

Isn't this really dangerous? If you lose power or reboot the machine 
without an empty incoming queue, you will lose messages. To reboot you 
would have to stop the incoming mail process, let MailScanner clean out 
the queue, then reboot. Or am I missing something that would prevent you 
from losing messages?