On Thu, May 13, 1999 at 04:16:34AM -0000, D. J. Bernstein wrote:
> qmail, like sendmail and other MTAs, relies on certain guarantees
> provided by the standard UNIX filesystem (Berkeley FFS, aka UFS). The
> Linux filesystem, by default, does not provide those guarantees, and
> does not necessarily keep your mail intact after a crash.
I wrote a little shared library which should help qmail on Linux. I sent it
to the qmail list last summer and have been using it myself since that. If
someone would like to get it, it's now also in
ftp://elektroni.ee.tut.fi/pub/qmail_linux_metadata_message
