hmm if message cannot be written to disk surely it remains on mda queue as not delviered and does not just disappear ? or am i reading this wrong ?!
> Dag Nygren <mailto:d...@newtech.fi> > 16 August 2017 at 7:14 am > Thanks for all the advice on how to configure systemd > not to loose my emails after every update. Much appreciated. > > But there could be other reasons for the mailboxes not being > writable and what I am really asking for is for > dovecot-lda not to loose the incoming emails into thin air > in these cases. > > Could we have some kind of collective place/places where they would > be saved in this case and then reintroduced into the system > after the problem is fixed? One file for example? > > Best > Dag > Dag Nygren <mailto:d...@newtech.fi> > 14 August 2017 at 4:24 pm > Hi! > > Have been using Fedora as my dovecot server for > some time and am struggling with systemd > at every update. > Fedora insists on setting > ProtectSystem=full in both dovecot.service and postfix.service > at every update of the packages. > > This makes my mailstore which is in /usr/local/var/mail > Read-only. > > And this makes the incoming emails delivered through > dovecot-lda disappear into /dev/null until I notice > the problem and we lose incoming emails. > > My question is: > Is there any way to set up a failback mailstore > for these occasions? > > PS! I really hate systemd - Destroys the UNIX way of > doing things with a heavy axe.... > > > Best > Dag