On Sunday 03 July 2005 12:11, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> 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?
I don't know. .qmail-mirror-errors is an alias to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and
that's it.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
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