On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 12:00:36PM +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> Due to the fact I did an "apt-get dist-upgrade", and we have dotdeb.org in
> our
> sources, qmail was upgraded, and as a result it had to be stopped. It asked
> me whether to restart it, and I said yes, but it wasn't restarted. I noticed
> it today, when I found out I did not receive any E-mail to my
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] alias. After I restarted qmail manually using
> "/etc/init.d/qmail start", everything became normal.
>
> Otherwise I found this file:
>
> eskimo:/var/mail# ls -l /var/mail/alias
> -rw-rw---- 1 alias mail 2147483588 Jul 3 12:01 /var/mail/alias
>
> It's a huge file, which seems to have a great deal of various messages, and I
> wonder if we can simply delete it.
No, please fix the source of the problem. I see the following error on
my iglu errors folder:
Hi. This is the qmail-send program at eskimo.iglu.org.il.
I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
procmail:
Error while writing to
"/var/mail/alias"
Why is procmail delivering there messages?
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