bclements@io-networks.com wrote:
Freebsd 4.10 Filesystem is UFS2 Generic P4 with 256 megs of ram The problems were discovered this morning by the president of a larger client. Logfiles do not show a thing This is a existing install from one or two years ago and it was not a migration.
Brent
i don't know an answer to that, but imho it would make sense telling the list here :
- which OS+version you use
- which filesystem-type you use (yes, filesystem-probs can make files vanish is my experience)
- which kind of machine you use
- since when exactly did these problems occur
- do logfiles show any related messages
- did you migrate from e.g. courier and follow the migration-tips
Also - which storage format are you using? mbox or Maildir?
From memory, Timo spent AGES working subtle problems out of the mbox code (which only added to the already numerous reasons I chose Maildir :) I don't remember clearly, but if you are using mbox, I can easily believe that one of those bugs could possibly have caused mail loss.
Every time I think of mbox, I think about that "all your eggs in one basket" phrase....
-- Curtis Maloney