> On 07/25/2014 01:09 PM, Wietse Venema wrote:
> Martin Vegter:
>>
>> It happened to me that NFS was down (or simply unmounted),
>> $HOME/mail/Inbox did not exist, and new mail could not be delivered. I
>> would have expected that Postfix would keep it until it can deliver it
>> to users mailbox, but instead it simply vanished.
>
> Postfix does not lose mail. Look in the maillog file.
If home is not mounted, then the email is returned to the sender with
following error:
Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender:
maildir delivery failed: create maildir file
/home/martin/mail/Inbox/tmp/1406294059.G14152.alpha: Read-only file
system
> If you have a buggy mail delivering script that loses mail, then
> you can set "require_home_directory = yes" in main.cf to work around
> it. But it is better not to rely on a buggy mail delivering script.
"require_home_directory = yes" works.
That seems to be what I needed.
Thanks a lot.
