[courier-users] Re: courier tmp directory - with some diagnostic

[Honza M. <ma...@de...>]

> 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.

It works fine.

> 
> 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.
> 

I've used: ps aux|grep submit  and it gives:

courier   2732  1.8  0.0    0    0    ?  Z  17:49    0:35 (submit
<zombie>)

when this proccess is killed itself it put into maillog message:
   "courieresmtpd: submitclient: EOF from submit."


There are some pieces of my maillog:

Sep  2 04:42:13 ns courieresmtpd: started,ip=[::ffff:194.108.60.66]
Sep  2 05:22:15 ns courierd: SHUTDOWN: respawnlo limit reached, system
inactive.
Sep  2 05:22:15 ns courierd: Courier 0.26 Copyright 1999-2000 Double
Precision, 
Sep  2 05:22:15 ns courierd: Installing [0/0]
....
Sep  2 06:22:15 ns courierd: SHUTDOWN: respawnlo limit reached, system
inactive.
....
Sep  2 06:25:05 ns courieresmtpd: started,ip=[::ffff:194.108.60.66]
Sep  2 07:10:49 ns courieresmtpd: submitclient: EOF from submit.
Sep  2 07:22:15 ns courierd: SHUTDOWN: respawnlo limit reached, system
inactive.
Sep  2 07:22:15 ns courierd: Courier 0.26 Copyright 1999-2000 Double
Precision, Inc.
Sep  2 07:22:15 ns courierd: Installing [0/0]
....


Tell me for what is respawnlo good, please ?
Because it seems it occures every hour. And this is that thing which
stops message delivery!!!

Problem is we are using 64kb/s wireless connection and this file size is
around 10MB
and I think that delivery can take longer than one hour !

Can I change this "courierd: SHUTDOWN: respawnlo limit reached, system
inactive.", please ?

Or is something misconfigured, please ?


Thanks a lot.


Regards,

Jan Mach