We were able to move the file to a larger partition, open the mail program,
delete a ton of emails, then move the file back, and everything works. Thanks
everyone
From: euglug-boun...@euglug.org [mailto:euglug-boun...@euglug.org] On Behalf Of
French, Derek
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 11:2
Wow. Unfortunately, impossible to do any of that w/o hiring someone (very
little Unix knowledge). I don't mind losing the junk emails that the system has
sent, & can go in periodically & delete the future emails that the system sends
now that I have learned my lesson...so if I deleted the /var/s
So what I would do is stop the MSA/MTA. (Sendmail Postfix whatever.) I
would then save off the mbox file or maildir file depending on how it's
setup up. After saving off that data I would then cat /dev/null > {mbox} or
rm -rf the maildir. Recreate the mbox file or maildir file an restart the
MSA
Maybe you could just gzip it to buy yourself some space, and see if Mail
will regenerate the base file from scratch (which I think it will).
That way if it DOESN'T regen the file, you at least haven't lost anything...
Matt Jarvis
Eugene, Oregon USA
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 9:51 AM, French, Derek
Using Unix AIX 5.1 box, and unfortunately let mail file get too large
(304megs), and now I can't get into the Mail program to delete the emails at
the root directory because it says, "/tmp : No space left on device." I don't
see any other large files/am uncomfortable deleting any other files in
