Re: read only fs is a permanent error ?

Martin Spütz writes:

> Hi,
>
> we just had a problem with the filesystem on one of our servers. The
> filesystem has gone read-only.
>
> Unfortunately maildrop rejected every email and qmail bounced it back to
> the user.
>
> failure notice:
> > maildrop: /home/vpopmail/domains/.../Maildir/: Read-only file system
>
> It is possible to change that to a temporary error?

Sure. Configure Qmail accordingly.

All that maildrop does is return an exit code. It's up to qmail to decide  
whether to handle it as a temporary or a permanent error.

Doing a quick test, maildrop aborts with exit code 75, EX_TEMPFAIL, for me.  
I don't have Qmail docs handy, but Qmail should be handling that as a  
temporary error. If not, and if you're invoking maildrop from a script,  
you'll need to make sure that your script itself terminates with the same  
exit code that maildrop does, because that's what Qmail sees.

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