Quoting Yaron (jethro at freakzilla.com):
>   Hey,
> 
> On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Bob Tanner wrote:
> 
> > Mail server is getting very busy. Any recommendations on how to prevent errors
> > like this?
> 
> Tell your backup program not to backup /var/spool/mqueue? Data in that dir
> isn't supposed to be static anyway.

Ooohhh....

% mailq | wc
    680    3111   38830

680 "transient" message. I think users would be pretty upset if I lost almost
700 messages.

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