On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 10:33:03AM +0100, Martin Fahrendorf wrote: > No, postfix can't lose mail (at least in theory). postfix don't confirms > the receiving of the mail until it is succesfully written to the spool > directory. So you can loose mail if you use write caches in your system > (OS ore hardware) but thats not relayable to postfix.
I forgot to reply to this in my other email... esmtp doesn't confirm receiving of the message until it's be accepted by the remote mail server. In both cases your timeframe for losing mail would be the small amount of time between when you started sending mail and when it finishes. The one exception for when esmtp would be at a disadvantage if you were emailing a large file attachment. But in both cases your mail client wouldn't show the message was accepted and you ought to realize that the message hadn't been sent because the machine crashed while you were still trying to send it. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org "If you're not making any mistakes, you're flat out not trying hard enough." - Jim Nichols
