On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, John Peacock wrote:
My next SWAG is that the undeleted files are exclusively from the cases where the remote MTA ended the connection prematurely (or timed-out). This would seem to bear out the contents of the files I find, which frequently include only headers, or maybe part of the message body but it ends in the middle of an HTML tag (for example).
You'd see the same if the process died - e.g. segfault, or killed by OOM condition. You are sure that the remote MTA timed out?
I still think that anonymous files are the right spool to use, precisely for these conditions.
