On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 13:28 -0700, Stephen Smoogen wrote: > On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 12:56, Havoc Pennington wrote: > > > Ditto /var/spool. > > > > IMAP and remote smtp server, or something along those lines. Print > > servers. > > > > You could have "writable /var" as a possible configuration, too. > > You can get away with most of that except when the CxO box dies while an > email was being sent and its gone. Murphy seems to strike on this one > more than statistically should be possible... If you're doing direct SMTP, then having a writable /var doesn't help in this case, either. Hopefully your mail client saves to a file (which would be in the home dir) and then does the smtp transaction, removing the file from the home dir after that succeeds. Jeremy
