FWIW, some mailers (Netscape Mail Server) verify that there is a local postmaster account upon startup. If there isn't any, they don't start (and write the info in the error log).
Stefano Debenedetti wrote: > FYI, I was wondering today why should the postmaster for a mail server > preferably be an account on the same server and I think this is a good > evidence that it should not > 0.02� > ste > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Runaway James > Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 11:14:36 -0600 > From: Eric Weidner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: James Users List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: James-User Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > While the cause of this problem was totally my fault, it might be nice > if there was way to stop James from running out of control in the > following situation. > > I recently upgraded to the latest cvs code from the cvs code from a > month earlier. I diff'd the config.xml's and since there were some > additions in the new one, I decided to move my config changes to the new > file. Oops, missed the Postmaster email address and I have notify > postmaster turned on for spam and error processors. Next time there was > a message sent to the error processor, it try to send to > Postmaster@localhost. That generated an error, so it tried to send a > message to Postmaster@localhost. And so on and so on and...... 4GB > worth of errors in the deadletter table and 8GB worth of MySQL redo logs > later, disk is full and everything's dead. > > Is there anything you guys can do to catch runaway's like this? I > realize the difficulty in doing this since these messages aren't exactly > able to be cross referenced. > > Thanks, > > Eric > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- !try; do() -- Vincent Keunen, Ir, http://vincent.keunen.net Manex, rue Wagner 93, BE-4100 Boncelles, Belgium Our site: http://www.manex.be -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
