Re: [EXIM] check_spool_space not working?

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Συντάκτης: Philip Hazel
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Προς: Karsten Thygesen
Υ/ο: exim-users
Αντικείμενο: Re: [EXIM] check_spool_space not working?
On 30 Nov 1998, Karsten Thygesen wrote:

> Solaris is OK.


That I know (I'm on a Solaris box) :-)

> Hmm.. Or perhaps it should be an transport-option? Like in:
>
> local_delivery:
> driver = appendfile;
> file = /var/mail/${local_part},
> check_free_space = /var/mail:100M
>
> and then hold back (in the spool) all mails to that transport? Then
> mails to other transports could continue... A kind of fine-granulated
> conditional delivery...


That could be done, but does it gain you very much? If Exim tries to
deliver into that partition and it is full, it will just hold the
message on the spool. What you would gain here is just being able to
stop it a bit before it got full. Is this a big benefit?

-- 
Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
ph10@???      Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.



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