[Users] POP Mails written to local Nirvana?

[Fabian Keil]

Frank Busse <frank at busse.oche.de> wrote:

> My local ./Mail folder is a symlink to a folder on an NFS mount. This morning, the server was temporarily unavailable during boot, resulting in the ./Mail folder being a "dead link".
> 
> However, after calling one of my POP providers, Claws read (and deleted) the current eMails from the server, writing them to... er yes, where exactly do you imagine, might Claws have written the eMails?
> 
> Until now, I have no idea. I just know that Claws did not complain about anything, during "writing".

Did you rule out NFS issues already?

A popular NFS performance optimization (at the cost of reliability)
is to let the server treat synchronous operations like asynchronous
ones.

If the server is configured that way and was rebooting instead of
cold-booting this could explain the data loss.

Fabian
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