Mail Server problems

[Dave Filchak]

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Hello,

Forgive me as this may or may not be a true MailScanner issue but I
would appreciate some input from the experts on this list.

My mail server has been periodically rejecting mail with the following
error [logs from sending mail-relay]:

2004-12-20 18:07:49.596345500 delivery 12914: deferral:
Connected_to_199.243.151.38_but_sender_was_rejected./Remote_host_said:_452_4.4.5_Insufficient_disk_space;_try_again_later/
<snip>

My logs report:

Dec 20 18:15:29 rosewood sendmail[20639]: iBKNFTDN020639: low on space
(SMTP-DAEMON needs 1451858 bytes + 100 blocks in /var/spool/mqueue), max
avail: 0

My disk usage looks like:

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2             572M  375M  168M  70% /
/dev/hda1             122M   24M   92M  21% /boot
/dev/hda3             5.4G  2.1G  3.1G  41% /home
none                  496M     0  496M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda7              28G   15G   12G  56% /usr
/dev/hda5             2.0G  1.8G  101M  95% /var

So, it is obvious I have a disk space issue in my /var partition.
Someone on the list recently suggested copying my /var/mail directories
to say my /usr partition and then symlinking to it from /var. Any
thoughts on the viability of this? Also, when I first built this
machine, I had not anticipated using MailScanner and Spamassassin and
mail quarantines etc, so what do most of you assign for a partition size
to /var when you are building your machines?

I greatly appreciate any help anyone has to offer on this as I have some
very agitated clients.

Cheers

Dave

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