[Wylug-help] Insurance against lost mail

[Anne Wilson]

Repeated power cuts last week (severe problems in the whole village) 
eventually caused a time when the UPS hadn't managed to recharge, and the 
resulting crash did too much damage to repair.   This is the first time I've 
seen that in 7 years!

I rebuilt the server box, but missed one step which caused procmail to have a 
hissy fit, and I lost almost a whole day's list mail.  Logwatch today tells me

 System Error Messages:
     savemail: cannot save rejected email anywhere: 5 Time(s)
     putbody: write error: Broken pipe: 99 Time(s)

I'm wondering if there is anything that can be done to give procmail access to 
a safe area where it can write when things go badly wrong like this?  Or do I 
take it as a completely abnormal event, and just accept it?  I know that 
mistakes in recipes simply leave it writing an mbox file which I can recover, 
so maybe this one-off just has to be accepted.

Anne
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