>>>>> "Philip" == Philip Hazel <ph10@???> writes:
Philip> On 30 Nov 1998, Karsten Thygesen wrote:
>> check_spool_space = 100M check_spool_inodes = 100
>>
>> and my free space is currently below 70Mb in /var/mail, but exim
>> happily receives and processes new mails both from SMTP and local
>> execution.
>>
>> Do I misunderstand something, or is this a bug?
Philip> I'm afraid you have misunderstood. Unfortunately the word
Philip> "spool" means different things to different people. Those two
Philip> options are for checking the space on Exim's spool files - the
Philip> place it keeps messages while waiting to deliver them. It is
Philip> whatever you have set the SPOOL_DIRECTORY option to in your
Philip> Local/Makefile. In contrast, /var/mail is a directory into
Philip> which local deliveries are made. I know some people sometimes
Philip> call this the "spool", but I don't. It is a collection of
Philip> mailboxes, not a temporary holding place, which is what
Philip> "spool" *should* mean. :-)
Well - OK - perhaps a clearification in the docs would help? Anyway -
in my case, it is the same partition, so my problem is still there.
You check for free diskspace by using bfree and ffree instead of
bavail and favail. I think that is wrong - especially, if exim is not
running as root...
And second, then I would like to submit a request for an option to
check for free diskspace in the /var/mail spool^H^H^H^H^H partition
:-)
Karsten
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