On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:05 AM, nixlists <nixmli...@gmail.com> wrote: > No offense, but I don't think the question was understood. qmail's > qmail-queue does interesting, and a bit complicated things to deal > with crashes while a message is being queued. See here: > http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/infosys/mail/qmail/qmail-manual-html/misc/INTERNALS.ht > ml > > qmail tries to be very careful that a message is on the disk. > > Does OpenSMTPD do this? The answer could be "yes" or "no". How is that > nonsensical?
The answer could also be yes and no, and indeed, it is. No, smtpd does not do what qmail does. Yes, smtpd tries to store the message on disk.