Mail Server problems

[Kevin Miller]

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>

How aggressive are you rolling your log files?  I'd look in /var/log to see
if there's not a years worth or so of old logs that have been tarred/gzipped
and and just taking up space.  If so, I'd archive them to another partition
or delete them and see if you can free up a few hundred megs.  Not sure
about other distros, but SuSE seems to default to keeping logs around for a
365 days or 99 iterations, whichever comes first (if I understand logrotate
arightly).  If you distro is similar there's probably a lot of deadwood that
you could prune...

...Kevin
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Kevin Miller                Registered Linux User No: 307357
CBJ MIS Dept.               Network Systems Admin., Mail Admin.
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