Martin Vegter: [ Charset ISO-8859-1 converted... ] > Hello, > > I am using Postfix with Maildir format, where user's mail is delivered > to $HOME/mail/Inbox and the home is mounted from NFS. > > It happened to me that NFS was down (or simply unmounted), > $HOME/mail/Inbox did not exist, and new mail could not be delivered. I > would have expected that Postfix would keep it until it can deliver it > to users mailbox, but instead it simply vanished.
Postfix does not lose mail. Look in the maillog file. If you have a buggy mail delivering script that loses mail, then you can set "require_home_directory = yes" in main.cf to work around it. But it is better not to rely on a buggy mail delivering script. Wietse