[Dovecot] dovecot server down, dovecot deliver keeps mail?

Steffen Kaiser skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-brs.de
Mon May 3 16:02:01 EEST 2010


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On Mon, 3 May 2010, mimosinnet at gmail.com wrote:

> and it seems that mails have been
> lost.

No, I do not think so.

> I guess that because the server was down dovecot transport could not 
> deliver the mail.

Yep.

> Nevertheless, I am wondering if dovecot deliver agent 
> keeps undelivered mail somewhere.

No, Dovecot deliver does not,

> http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Mail_server_using_Postfix_and_Dovecot

Check out postfix's logs, esp. how it handled the case. Usually mails are 
queued for later delivery attempts.

Regards,

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Steffen Kaiser
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