Hello, Well I've just had to stop our recently upgraded mailhub because no mail was getting through! :-) The server is running Exim 4.51 and spamassassin 3.0.3 under Fedora core 3.
Our main.log was showing numerous errors of: 2005-06-03 12:20:13 1DeACL-0004Ao-Dr acl_smtp_mime: error while creating mboxspool file, message temporarily rejected. What I couldn't understand was why this suddenly started - literally about 30 mins ago. The server had been running and sending/receiving mail for the past few days. Looking at /var/spool/exim/scan showed it had over 30,000 directories in it! These dated back to when the system basically came on-line. It seemed that the errors were because the directory was too big - there is bags of disk space available before anyone asks! Next thought was that exim/SA wasn't deleting the directories for some reason. Exim runs under the id 'exim' with group 'exim', and SA runs by default as root. As such if exim or SA creates the files/directories then bot hshould be able to delete them. The permissions on /var/spool/exim are: drwxr-x--- 6 exim exim 4096 May 24 01:06 exim and on the scan sub-directory are: drwxr-x--- 7 exim exim 1134592 Jun 3 12:52 scan I have stopped both exim and SA and emptied out the scan directory - couldn't think of much else to do! However, restarting the services and the scan directory is having directories left in it again. Anyone any thoughts on this? I know from the archives that the 'creating mbox...' error is usually associated with permissions but in this instance I'm not sure how it can be. Thanks, John. -- --------------------------------------------------------------- John Horne, University of Plymouth, UK Tel: +44 (0)1752 233914 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: +44 (0)1752 233839 -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
