[lug] Qmail Question

[Dale Harris]

On Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 02:48:29PM -0800, Glenn Ashton elucidated:
> 
> If Qmail dies while sending a large mailing to a list, will it pick up
> where it left off on reboot or does it work in a different way?
> 
> -Glenn

Well, it shouldn't die, that would be a bug.  And, most likely yes, it 
should take off from where it began.  Course if you ran out of space in 
your qmail spool directories (or ran out of available inodes), you could 
have some problems.  qmail spools files base on inode, inodes are only 
unique to the file system they are being created.  Ran into this problem
once, where we ran out of inodes, and then decided to try and move the 
spool directory to another file system with more space/inodes, of course there
was big problems, thankfully I wasn't the one that had to clean up the mess.

Frankly, despite sendmail's problems, I think it is better.  Especially 
with the newer versions.

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