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RE: [TCLUG:865] Linux and Sendmail



from my understanding of sendmail spooling, that is what will happen
it all depends on what is your local MTA, and how it handles non-writeable mail
boxes

On 10-Aug-98 Bob Tanner wrote:
> I am wondering what Linux and Sendmail will do if /var/spool/mqueue is
> writable and /var/spool/mail is non-writable?
> 
> I trying to test what will happen on a MX host that has NFS mounted
> /var/spool/mail from the main mail server but that main mail server is
> down. Therefore the MX host will accept mail for the down main mail
> server.
> 
> My hope is the the MX host will spool the incoming mail into
> /var/spool/mqueue and try to write it to /var/spool/mail, but when it
> fails (main mail server is down) it will keep the mail inside
> /var/spool/mqueue.
> 
> Anyone know?
> 
> 
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