Re: Why qmail needs to restart when deleting messages from the queue.

[Peter van Dijk]

On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 09:58:37AM +1000, Rawlinsons Group (Brisbane) wrote:
> Why does qmail need to restart everytime you delete a message from the
> queue?

Because it tries to keep track of what the queue looks like, and if you
mess with it, it'll get confused.

> If you were restarting qmail and several other servers at the same time were
> trying to send an email it would not get through would it?

Those servers will just try to send the message again later. Nothing
should get lost.

Greetz, Peter
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