Frank Bonnet:
> What would happen with postfix if it cannot access to users's mailboxes ?
> ( Eg : LAN down or filer stopped )
If the mailbox file system is hard mounted then the Postfix mail
delivery agent will hang until the LAN comes back or the filer is
rebooted. When a Postfix process hangs longer than some 1000s then
a Postfix watchdog timer will kill it.
If the mailbox file system is soft mounted then Postfix is not
supported.
If the mailbox file system is not mounted then Postfix gets a hard
error (no such file or directory, not a directory, etc.) and returns
the mail to the sender. That would also happen with non-NFS mounts.
Don't start Postfix before all mail-related file systems are mounted,
regardless of their type.
Wietse
