Martin Vegter:
> > 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
Excellent. Mail does not "vanish".
> > 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.
You're welcome.
Wietse
