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Sent: 08 November 1999 10:25
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Lost messages from zero disk space
> Let me restate that:
>
> If IMail runs out of disk space, it certainly must stop storing new
messages,
> and it probably should generate an error message. What happens
instead is
> that IMail kills existing messages, and does not generate an error
message.
>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>
> In a message dated 11/8/99 11:37:50 AM Pacific Standard Time,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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> << Subj: Re: [IMail Forum] Lost messages from zero disk space
> Date: 11/8/99 11:37:50 AM Pacific Standard Time
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Salvage)
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: 08 November 1999 09:17
> Subject: [IMail Forum] Lost messages from zero disk space
>
>
> > If IMail just kills the message files when disk space runs out,
that
> strikes
> > me as a pretty disasterous bug.
>
> erm colour me uninformed...but where should iMail store the mail if
> there's no disk space?
Again, at the risk of appearing facetious...that would indicate to me
that there was a bug in the operator and not the software. I have yet to
find a software package that, when confronted with zero disk space, will
finish processing, and shut down in an orderly fashion, after first
informing the operator that "there appears to be a problem and would he
be a nice chap and sort it out, sharpish like." Surely the operator
should maintain SOME sense of responsibility for the maintenance of his
server?
As a fix, I suggest running MRTG, pull out the MIB's for available disk
space, and monitor the HDD's yourself, every 5 minutes.
/wiZZ
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