Curtis:
> > This is safe only when the maildrop queue is "stopped", that is,
> >
> > 1) No submissions with the Postfix sendmail command while these
> > files are in the maildrop directory, otherwise mail will be
> > lost.
> >
> > 2) No pickup daemon and no postsuper command, otherwise pickup will
> > read incomplete files and throw them away, or it will make
> > duplicate deliveries as files get renamed.
>
> Based on earlier conversations in this thread (from February), it was
> determined to be safe to drop messages into the maildrop queue if we created
> the files using a unique filename and mode 0600, and then switched them to
> mode 0700 once the file was ready. Hopefully that's still true...
See the "otherwise" portions of my reply above.
Wietse
