On Jan 31, 2006, at 6:13 PM, Charlie Brady wrote:
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.
The original logic for not doing the immediate unlink was to keep it
as a tool to track down bugs in the error handling.
If qpsmtpd crashes or gets killed (maybe except for by OOM) then it's
not bad that it leaves behind a tell-tale.
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