In previous emails I noted that a qmail installation as part of Network
Associates Webshield SMTP for Solaris was exhibiting strange behaviour with
some email that could not be processed or sent correctly. These messages
kept reappearing in the intd and mess subdirectories, quickly eating up disk
space.
Following some suggestions from previous emails to the list, advice from
Frank Tegtmeyer, and responses to my previous emails, I tried various
things, but none seemed to work.
Manually deleting the entries in intd and mess/* cleared them enough to
release disk space for other messages to be handled. But the bad messages
just came back.
I tried changing the creation date on the mess/* files.
I hoped that the messages might "time out" eventually.
I set doublebounceto but I don't think that worked.
On Friday last I set badmailfrom for the two original senders, and over the
weekend the files seem to have gone.
Now I don't know if it had something to do with a default timeout somewhere
in the system of about 6 weeks from when the messages were originally sent,
or whether the badmailfrom worked. But so far today, the files are
conspicuous by their absence. Hooray! Lots of free disk space again.
Thanks for all your help!
Wallace.
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Wallace Nicoll [EMAIL PROTECTED]
City of Edinburgh Council IT Services,
Chesser House, 500 Gorgie Road, Phone : 0131 469 5343
Edinburgh, EH11 3YJ, Scotland Fax : 0131 469 5335
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