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misleading error message when "freezer" doesn't exist



This is 2.99.49p8-try1. Looking at the diffs between try1 and final,
final should also exhibit this behaviour.

If the freezer directory doesn't exist but a message is tagged for
freezing, the smtpserver reports that

308w    452 4.3.0 Requested action not taken: insufficient storage
308#    aborted (1335 bytes): message file close failed

This got me nervous about a week :-(

This occurs because _mail_close_() doesn't differentiate between
the different kinds of close failures so the smtpserver only knows
that the "message file close failed" without knowing why. I originally
thought that the "insufficient storage" is a new spam error until I
saw a real spam error message in the log file.

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