Hmm This seems a bit worrysome for me... How exactly can I back up my users mail? Right now I've been rsync'ing it to a remote machine in a daily "state of the system" archive. Does this mean that if I lose 2 drives at once and my mail server's array is destroyed unrecoverably my backups are useless? Or is this discussion just about mail that is in the middle of processing going out or comming in (i.e. not yet delivered)?
It only pertains to mail in the queue. Once mail is in the users' Maildir, the inode is no longer important. That is, you won't have a problem restoring users' Maildirs.
Backups of the queue are worthless. If your machine croaks, you can pretty much count on all of the files that you've got backed up having been delivered already. Restore, and then wipe the files from the queue before starting courierd.
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