Date: Sat, 6 Mar 1999 17:40:01 -0800 (PST) From: Chris Costello <chris@holly.dyndns.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/10444: enhancement: avoid lost mail when mail filesystem is not mounted Message-ID: <199903070140.RAA04943@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/10444; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Chris Costello <chris@holly.dyndns.org>
To: dhesi@rahul.net
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: bin/10444: enhancement: avoid lost mail when mail filesystem is not mounted
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 1999 19:40:16 -0600
On Sat, Mar 6, 1999, dhesi@rahul.net put this into my mailbox:
[...]
> I have been the following solution for many years. The
> local mailer looks for a file called '.MAIL.FSYS' in the
> mail filesystem. If it exists, mail delivery occurs as
> usual. If it does not exist, the mailer exits with a
> temporary failure, and mail remains queued.
Well, in FreeBSD, /var/mail is not usually its own partition,
and /var is. Sendmail (default MTA shipped with FreeBSD) uses
/var/spool/mqueue as its queue directory, so if /var is not
mounted, Sendmail would not be able to queue mail in the first
place.
-Chris
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