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

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

Bruce Smith wrote:

> I don't know much about Postfix (I'm a sendmail guy), but I do have
> Postfix configured on a couple of DL boxes without a hard drive.
> HOWEVER, it's only purpose is to SEND email, it cannot receive any email
> (port 25 is blocked), so I don't have the worry about incoming email
> filling up my memory.

> A send-only setup is the only legit reason that I can think of to run
> Postfix on a diskless system.

Hmm - I don't know.  Not much mail gets stored in spool files; only those that 
can't be delivered.  Anyway a send-only postfix still has a queue.

My system is not entirely diskless - the mailboxes and mail home dirs are on a 
hard drive.  Thats if a CF disk counts ;-)

Putting the spool files on the disk is not such a big deal, I've just never done 
it.  Doing so would mean my original question is irrelevant.

Dick