On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 02:38:10PM -0400, Ed Abrams wrote: > Let me further clarify that the queue for these messages, running on the > qmail machine, was an NFS share (a good one).
I don't know of any MTA author who thinks putting their MTA's /queue/ on an NFS share is workable -- DJB certainly doesn't. Why did you decide to configure your systems this way? > The oddness is that at the very end of the test, qmailctl stat showed the > queue to be stuck at two messages. In reviewing the queue by hand, there > were two messages, one in mess/13 and one in mess/21. The file dates on > these files showed them to have been written early on in the test, during > the first hour or so. Then your queue is corrupted, and I wouldn't be surprised if NFS was at least a primary contributing factor. > (2) I thought these messages should have been scooted over to the local/## > directory instead of staying in mess/##. You would be utterly wrong in thinking so. Read INTERNALS in the qmail sources to see what /really/ happens. -- Adrian Ho Tinker, Drifter, Fixer, Bum [EMAIL PROTECTED] ListArchive: <http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=qmail-ldap> Useful URLs: <http://www.lifewithqmail.org/ldap/> <http://www.nrg4u.com/>
