Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] Postfix and Dovecot SASL startup catch-22

[Dick M. <di...@li...>]

Heiko Zuerker wrote:
> On Tue, February 6, 2007 15:20, Dick Middleton wrote:
>> I've been meaning to point this out for a while; I don't reboot very
>> often so it's not a big priority.
>>
>> To use dovecot SASL with postfix you need to start dovecot first.
>> However
>> dovecot needs to create a socket in postfix jail
>> (/var/spool/postfix/private)
>> which, of course, doesn't exist until postfix is started.
> 
> Does that mean your /var/spool/postfix is not on a harddisk?

Yes, indeed.  Never even occurred to me - stuck in the mindset of no hard disk ;-)

It would help of course, to keep the spool file over reboots.  As it also avoids 
this problem.

Maybe that's what I'll do.

> I would highly recommend running a mail server only with the spool
> directory mounted to a harddisk.

Point taken.

Dick