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Le 10/01/2016 23:24, cheater00 . a écrit :
>> Please test this with the common mail server software, EG Postfix, Exim,
>> Procmail, Maildrop, Dovecot, etc.  The BTRFS bug as described won't cause data
>> loss with any of them.
> [...]
> because the sender only retries for 60 seconds and then throws away
> the message forever. There you go, loss of data and service.

What Russel was trying to say is that it's not how SMTP (and in general
any system/protocol where data is important) works. If the sender
behaves like this he is the one with a defective system.

Lionel