[Mimedefang] Simple question about the RAM dir

[Oliver Schulze L.]

Thanks Kayne, Jim and David.
I'm using the ram disk now on Linux (Centos 4.4) and just updated the wiki:
http://www.mimedefang.org/kwiki/index.cgi?RamBasedSpoolDirectory

Oliver

David F. Skoll wrote:
> Oliver Schulze L. wrote:
>
> [...]
>
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>> Of course the data in the RAM dir is lost, but will there be a copy in
>> sendmail spool dir, right?
>>     
>
> The contents of the RAM disk are not required for crash-recovery.  If
> the power fails a split-second before Sendmail replies "2xx" to the final
> dot, then the sending SMTP client will retry.  If it fails just after the
> 2xx response, then the message should be safely in /var/spool/mqueue.
>
> Regards,
>
> David.
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