On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Rogger Vasquez wrote:
> > We have install Xmail in a Linux server (redhat 7.2) ... > They are 7 users, the mail server works real good ... > but yesterday, the filesystem where MailRoot is , went FULL ... > 98% Usage of the filesystem, well the inconvinience was > that was the same filesystem of root directory "/" ... > and our linux hang ... > Well we repair the problem freeing space and moving /var/MailRoot > to other device .. just for it ... > > But in the process with notice that the spool directory was very large > (size) > for only 7 users ??? .. > > The question is "Does xmail leaves a copy of messages on the server ?" ... > We use outlook and eudora as clients, and we have configure that > they have to REMOVE the messages from the server ( or not LEAVING a copy on > the server ) if messages are correctly delivered ( either locally or remotely ) they're not kept inside the spool. if messages have delivery failure, the value of the server.tab variable RemoveSpoolErrors will make XMail to keep messages as frozen or remove them. huge spool dir might be caused by either misconfiguration ( mail loops if you've only 7 users ) or by someone trying to use the server as a relay-server ( did you setup smtprelay.tab correctly ? ). > And why are there are so many subdirectories in spool ... 0,1,2 .... and > each of them > has other directories 0,1 ... etc ... this is to balance the load inside multiple dirs when you've huge queues - Davide - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
