writing to /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming

[Richard Frovarp]

Ugo Bellavance wrote:
> 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
>
Right and if /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming is in tempfs, the only 
place it exists is in RAM. The state of RAM goes away during reboot or 
power loss. Hence it is really dangerous to have incoming in tempfs. If 
that queue isn't empty when the state is lost, messages will be lost.