inodes problem

[Paul Kelly :: Blacknight Solutions]

Mark Alberts wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am using the mailscanner as an end user without much knowledge since 
> it was installed for me.
> I have a VPS and i saw inodes getting to 100%.
> I searched this list and found an old issue from 2002, but that was 
> fixed long time ago.
>  var/ spool/ MailScanner/ incoming/  get full of directories and they 
> are not cleaned/removed. And i do suppose that these are all temp 
> files.
> So the Q, is this a bug, or a configuration, or better does somebody 
> know a fix?
> I am running 2.53  of Mailscanner.
> 

If you are storing spam, in /var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine/ can get
full. We've a couple of boxes keeping 30 days worth of quarantine and
now and again they run out of inodes.

They block around 1m spams a day though, so it's not a typical setup.

Paul
> best regards
> Mark Alberts
> 


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