writing to /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming

[Ugo Bellavance]

Richard Frovarp wrote:
> 
> 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?

Messages stays in the MTA inbound queue until processed.  They are 
copied to /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming, processed and it is copied to 
the outbound MTA queue once processed.  Once copied in the outbount 
queue, it is deleted from the inbound queue.

I think this is in the MAQ...

ugo