I would like to use RAMDisk for my spooling folders, but I want to know when archiving takes place in relation to spooling. Are messages archived before or after they are processed in the Spool? If they are archived before spooling, then I would feel more confident that if I am using RAMDisk and there is a hard shutdown of the server, then I could possibly retrieve messages from the Archive.

I would assume that if an incoming message is still in the Spool and does not get properly processed, then the sending server would interpret as a failed sent message and would try again. But if my user is sending out a message (outgoing) and my server is shut off or fails, then I may want to retrieve the message from the Archive since the Spool would be empty after the server restarts and since RAMDisk would not save data on a hard shutdown.