Mail Server problems

[Dave Filchak]

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Additional log info: to follow is another log info indicating an issue
with what seems to be disk space:

(626/12), delay=00:05:06, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=1564209,
dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: local mailer (/usr/bin/procmail) exited with
EX_TEMPFAIL

Dave

Dave Filchak wrote:

> 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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