RE: [courier-users] courier tmp directory

[Sam V. <mr...@st...>]

On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Jan Mach wrote:

> > > I've made default install of courier. It created some direcotry
> > > /var/courier/tmp/
> > > in this directory is sometimes created new one for example 96780/
> > > and I guess there are stored spooled mails. But I have found when those
> > > mails are broken then it can stay there forever.
> >
> > They won't stay there forever.
> >
> 
> It was ther efor last three days. Somebody is trying to deliver us huge
> email
> and it always get corrupted. So it was nearly to fill up all disk free
> space.
> 
> So as I understand it will be deleted by courier automaticaly, so don't
> worry about things ?

Yes.  Files in tmp are deleted after 48 hours.  Subdirectories are deleted
when they are empty.

Normally there's an attempt to clean things up, if a message delivery is
aborted.  Files shouldn't be left in tmp except when there's a major
crash.

If you're crashing due to large messages, set an upper limit on allowed
message size.


-- 
Sam