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

[Bruce S. <bw...@ar...>]

> > 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.

Right, and I control what it's sending.  In my case, they are very small
text-only notification emails from Apache to myself.  Plus they are
infrequent, so the memory outbound queue works fine for my application.
And no big deal if it loses power and the queue is lost.

> 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.

Is the incoming email stored on the CF?  If not, I hope you have a small
message size limit and a GOOD spam blocker (or a LOT of memory)!  :-)

And what happens if your DL box loses power or crashes?  You lose all
the queued email in the ram disk?  Yikes!

 - BS