Incoming and outgoing queue..

[Kevin Miller]

JD Doelitzsch wrote:
> In my case it was the maillog's that filled up to a crazy amount
> until no disk space for incoming was available. I have 1gb mem with 4
> child processes. Im thinking I need to get milter-ahead for the mail
> log issue Im getting a bunch of "sorry no dude at mydomain.com is here".
> In any case since I did hit that disk full error, does MS stop
> working on the queue or does it continue when space is available
> again? 

By maillogs do you mean /var/log/maillog, /var/log/messages, etc.?  If
so, look into logrotate so that automatic maintenance is performed to
clean up old deadwood automatically.  

I suspect that if the disk is full that pretty much everything will come
to a halt if it needs to write to that partition.

A great resouce is Julian's book on MailScanner available from his web
site.  It's well worth the cost (which isn't that much).  Also there's
some good documentation at http://www.fsl.com/support/, in particular
the MailScanner Manual.

HTH....

...Kevin
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