Re: Journalling and email loss

[Pavel Kankovsky]

On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Len Budney wrote:

> Then your comment was utterly inane. Any MTA which returns success
> before writing a message to the filesystem, and syncing it, should be
> thrown away...

What if the MTA has already forwarded the message in question to other MTA
and got an acknowledgement? What if the message has already been processed
by some program? Why should MTA bother making sure a copy of the message
has been saved to the disk in these situations?

Qmail's design has advantages but it is not the only way to design MTA in
the universe.

--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak  [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
"Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for assimilation."