Because if the spool is a ramdisk then a message received via SMTP becomes the responsibility of the receiving SMTP server for delivery. With no physical storage location if the receiving STMP were to lose power the spool/received messages would be lost and further delivery would not be attempted upon restart.
-----Original Message----- From: John Tolmachoff (Lists) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 9:49 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] improved performance using ramdrive? > If the spool directory was on a RAM drive, though, it could speed > things up quite a bit (the RFCs say this is not allowed, though), as > the information constantly changes. Why would the RFCs care where the spool is? Performance wise, that would be a great use if you had the funds. John Tolmachoff Engineer/Consultant/Owner eServices For You --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com. --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.
