Failback mailboxes?

Matt Bryant devops at atmail.com
Wed Aug 16 00:56:13 EEST 2017


hmm if message cannot be written to disk surely it remains on mda queue
as not delviered and does not just disappear ? or am i reading this
wrong ?!


> Dag Nygren <mailto:dag at newtech.fi>
> 16 August 2017 at 7:14 am
> Thanks for all the advice on how to configure systemd
> not to loose my emails after every update. Much appreciated.
>
> But there could be other reasons for the mailboxes not being
> writable and what I am really asking for is for
> dovecot-lda not to loose the incoming emails into thin air
> in these cases.
>
> Could we have some kind of collective place/places where they would
> be saved in this case and then reintroduced into the system
> after the problem is fixed? One file for example?
>
> Best
> Dag
> Dag Nygren <mailto:dag at newtech.fi>
> 14 August 2017 at 4:24 pm
> Hi!
>
> Have been using Fedora as my dovecot server for
> some time and am struggling with systemd
> at every update.
> Fedora insists on setting
> ProtectSystem=full in both dovecot.service and postfix.service
> at every update of the packages.
>
> This makes my mailstore which is in /usr/local/var/mail
> Read-only.
>
> And this makes the incoming emails delivered through
> dovecot-lda disappear into /dev/null until I notice
> the problem and we lose incoming emails.
>
> My question is:
> Is there any way to set up a failback mailstore
> for these occasions?
>
> PS! I really hate systemd - Destroys the UNIX way of
> doing things with a heavy axe....
>
>
> Best
> Dag



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