Victor Duchovni:
> On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 07:58:55PM -0400, Wietse Venema wrote:
>
> > > This is extremely difficult to reproduce, but it does happen occasionally
> > > -- We will tell postfix to stop, and once that is complete, a "postdrop"
> > > process will sometimes remain, and will run until it is manually killed.
> > >
> > > Is this an expected behavior of postdrop -- That after the master postfix
> > > is stopped, it is expected sometimes that it may continue running,
> > > regardless?
> >
> > This is 100% intentional. The Postfix sendmail command MUST NOT
> > drop mail on the floor while the mail system is down.
>
> Well, yes, postdrop(1) is expected to reliably enqueue mail, even when
> the mail system is down. This said, it is not really expected to enter
> an infinite loop!
Well, yes, one is not supposed to remove the submission directory and
ignore postdrop error messages.
If people use Postfix, then at least they have a chance to re-create
the missing directory or permissions, and avoid losing mail.
Wietse
