Oops
Note to self: If you are setting up a mail server, and using it to receive twice-daily backups of your website, and then you decide not to retrieve those backups from the mail server so that they just lie around, your spool partition will fill up and you will stop receiving mail!
So if anyone had anything important to say to me in the last few hours, please say it again, 'cause it might have got losted.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at 12:35 PM
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How small is your spool partition? It's either tiny or your web backups are huge. If so, don't backup everything each time. Just grab the comments since that's the only thing that should be changing.
If you're using Exim, it would be very easy to directly archive the email upon receipt. If you don't actually look at this stuff all the time, this would be the simple solution. Just create an email account specifically for this purpose and add a router that archives the email to a different partition (I can show you how, if you wish).
If you're using Microsoft Exchange, you deserve whatever problems you get.
If you're using Exim, it would be very easy to directly archive the email upon receipt. If you don't actually look at this stuff all the time, this would be the simple solution. Just create an email account specifically for this purpose and add a router that archives the email to a different partition (I can show you how, if you wish).
If you're using Microsoft Exchange, you deserve whatever problems you get.
Posted by: Rossz at September 07, 2003 07:19 AM (43SjN)
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My spool partition is only 500MB. The backups are about 15MB per day. The web site is about 1GB 
I'm using Postfix, by the way. I just made a spool directory on a bigger partition and symlinked it back to /var/spool/mail and everything's happy again.
I'm using Postfix, by the way. I just made a spool directory on a bigger partition and symlinked it back to /var/spool/mail and everything's happy again.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 07, 2003 01:13 PM (jtW2s)
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