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



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