writing to /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming

[Richard Frovarp]

Mike Kercher wrote:
> Richard Frovarp <> wrote on Tuesday, May 08, 2007 9:51 AM:
>
> : 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.    
>
> I think he's talking about /var/spool/mqueue.in
>
> -Mike
>   

Yeah, that's what I was thinking of. Sorry. More sleep would be good.

Richard