Re: [Exim] Bypass disk queue

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Author: Vadim Vygonets
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Bypass disk queue
Quoth Avleen Vig on Mon, Sep 22, 2003:
> I believe the RFCs *require* saving to disk before you let the sender
> know the message was received successfully, in order to better ensure
> delivery guarantees.


Yes.

> I know sendmail has a 'super safe' option, which if you turn it off, it
> won't spool to disk,


What's so "super safe" about it? I'd say it's rather unsafe.

> but I don't know if exim has this.


It doesn't.

Vadik.

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Of course [nobody reads the docs that come with the OS] -- that
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