RE: [courier-users] courier tmp directory

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

On Fri, 1 Sep 2000, Jan Mach wrote:

> >
> > Yes.  Files in tmp are deleted after 48 hours.  Subdirectories are deleted
> > when they are empty.
> 
> Is there a configuration option to change interval ?

No.

> > 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.
> 
> Problem is it was only one message but I can't be delivered for some reason
> (may be connection is interrupted).
> 
> And this message was stored in that tmp directory moretimes. Result was it
> took a lot of disk space.

If one message is sufficient to run out of disk space, this means that
your system is incorrectly configured.

> I don't know how to avoid this situation. Any advice, please ?

Set the maximum size of messages to some reasonable value.  See
"sizelimit" in courier(8) man page.


-- 
Sam