On 15 Jul 2004 Professional Software Engineering
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At 15:15 2004-07-15 -0500, rgball wrote:
At my hosting service they use procmail to sort mail into all
the various files associated with the email aliases.
What exactly does the above mean? It sounds like your hosting
service might be using procmail as an MTA and, as Sean so
eloquently said recently
Procmail Is Not An MTA!
I've been
having lost mail problems and have been looking at the
procmail log to see if I can discover anything.
One problem I see on a very irregular basis is:
procmail: No space left to finish writing "rgb"
procmail: Truncated file to former size
BTW, the above local delivery failuer SHOULD result in a bounce to the
sender, unless your ISP is using procmail in a hokey fashion.
I recommend that you check to see if these are resulting in SMTP
bounce messages and if they are not, get a new mail hosting
service.
Other than the obvious (really running out of room) what might cause this?
It's the obvious one - running out of disk space.
These errors are interleaved with successful deliveries so I can't tell
what
Keep in mind that most POP mail daemons [...]
Speaking of POP, how do you (rgball) access your mailboxes? Do
you use POP, IMAP, or an MUA running in the shell on your hosting
service's system? If you use IMAP or shell-based MUA, I recommend
that you use procmail to deliver your mail to non-spool
mailboxes, e.g., mailboxes located in ~/Maildir or ~/Mail or
wherever your server-based non-spool mailboxes are stored.
I hope this is helpful,
Nancy
Infinite Ink
www.ii.com
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