On Wed, 14 Apr 2010, Charlie Brady wrote: > On Wed, 14 Apr 2010, Matt Sergeant wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Can anyone remember the reason that the spool files aren't proper temp files > > (deleted upon open)? We often end up with a hard restart of qpsmtpd and > > having > > these files left around is annoying... > > I asked that question, and I think there was a hand-waving response about > debugging. > > I'll see if I can find a reference in the archives.
http://www.mail-archive.com/qpsmtpd@perl.org/msg04394.html Ask Bjrn Hansen wrote: The original logic for not doing the immediate unlink was to keep it as a tool to track down bugs in the error handling.