On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 04:51:05PM -0800, joe bsd wrote:
> Are there any other issues to consider in making the choice?

If your linux system is reliable and is on a UPS, it won't make much
difference which way you go.

If it's ever suddenly rebooted/reset for any reason though, or if you
have any stability problems with it, you could lose mail if you don't
mount the mail-handling filesystems 'sync' (and assuming you are using
ext2) due to the asynchonous handling of metadata (and particularly the
'rename' call) on ext2.

(The same goes for async mounts on *BSD, and afaict, softupdates -- but
neither of these is the default.)

Not really security related, but, you asked. :)