Re: [courier-users] courier tmp directory

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

On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, Honza Mach wrote:

> I have some solutions:
> 
> 1) restrict size limit - problem is that incomming message should fit
> this limit but can be 
> delivered for ever (or for some days let's say 5 days) and in case there
> is broken connection
> then same sitioation occures.
> 
> 2) somehow disable acceptig connection from that server (problem is that
> is our secondary mail server
> and I don't think so I can disable it).
> 
> 3) somehow tell courier (better say submit) that it can delete broken
> messages in let's say 5 hours.
> 
> Any advice (for broken messages - isn't complete so it can't be
> delivered and have to stay in tmp directory I know).

I repeat again: unless there's a major failure, partially delivered
messages get automatically deleted.  See for yourself

$ sendmail postmaster


You will now have a partial control file in tmp.

Press CTRL-C to kill sendmail, and the partial file gets deleted.

This is what is supposed to happen.  Only in extreme circumstances do
files are left there without being cleaned up.  You will need to
investigate things further to find out what is going on.  Like what
exactly do you mean by "broken message".  That, by itself, means
absolutely nothing.

-- 
Sam