spool-fail-directory verified
Where unreadable files are moved
in the configuration this is a line
spool-fail-directory: …Directory that receives spooled files the engine could not parse.
Values
- Values
directory path- applying
restart required- where it can be set
in the config file · with a startup flag · as an environment variable
In detail
Without it, a malformed file has nowhere to go and the question of what happens to it is unanswered. With it, bad input accumulates somewhere visible — which is the difference between a silent loss and a queue of things to look at.