Re: mail backup

2001-02-01 Thread Dave Sill
"Kris Kelley" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Incoming messages are first stored in ~/Maildir/tmp. They are only moved to ~/Maildir/new once the file write is complete. Therefore, as long as you are only backing up ~/Maildir/cur and ~/Maildir/new, you shouldn't have any risk of incomplete file

Re: mail backup

2001-01-31 Thread Dave Sill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am wondering that how to backup mail directory. I am having trouble with how to do it. Please give me some idea what you are doing. Which mail directory are you referring to? /var/qmail? /var/spool/mail? ~user/Maildir? And what kind of trouble are you having? I use

RE: mail backup

2001-01-31 Thread Takayuki Murai
Hello, Which mail directory are you referring to? /var/qmail? /var/spool/mail? ~user/Maildir? And what kind of trouble are you having? I am referring to ~user/Maildir. Some of the user use POP, and the other use IMAP. And, I assume that incoming mails store into ~/Maildir/new. My question

Re: mail backup

2001-01-31 Thread Kris Kelley
Takayuki Murai wrote: I am referring to ~user/Maildir. Some of the user use POP, and the other use IMAP. And, I assume that incoming mails store into ~/Maildir/new. My question is: if there are new coming mail storing into ~/Maildir/new while backup job is working, what problem is going to