Messages in this thread | | | From | Martin Steigerwald <> | Subject | Re: POSIX violation by writeback error | Date | Wed, 05 Sep 2018 09:39:58 +0200 |
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Rogier Wolff - 05.09.18, 09:08: > So when a mail queuer puts mail the mailq files and the mail processor > can get them out of there intact, nobody is going to notice. (I know > mail queuers should call fsync and report errors when that fails, but > there are bound to be applications where calling fsync is not > appropriate (*))
AFAIK at least Postfix MDA only reports mail as being accepted over SMTP once fsync() on the mail file completed successfully. And I´d expect every sensible MDA to do this. I don´t know how Dovecot MDA which I currently use for sieve support does this tough.
-- Martin
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