Autor: Bernhard Erdmann Data: A: Mark Baker CC: 60006-forwarded, exim-users Assumpte: Re: [Exim] [torsten@geopcl10.pclab.ifg.uni-kiel.de: Bug#60006: exim
reacts strange if out of disk space]
Mark Baker wrote: >
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> Subject: Bug#60006: exim reacts strange if out of disk space
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> From: Torsten Landschoff <torsten@???>
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> Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 17:39:18 +0100
>
> Package: exim
> Version: 3.12-4
> Severity: normal
>
> Hi Mark,
>
> I just run into an interesting problem. A user reported he is unable
> to send mail anymore. The Reason was easy to find: /var was full.
>
> What is weird is the strange reaction from exim. When I tried to send
> an email by manually invoking exim with
>
> sendmail -bs -odb -oem
>
> I was able to enter the full mail. But when I entered the "." to end the
> mail I got no response. After like 5 minutes exim terminated with
>
> 421 <hostname> Timeout while reading mail data
> (something like this).
>
> I think this is a bug. exim should tell me the disk is full. More strange
> when I enter another dot just after the first one I get an reply immediately
> "unable to write to spool dir" etc. pp.
>
> Please report this upstream - such weird behaviour should be left to the
> Windows world ;)
Did you read the spec? Use some of these options:
check_spool_space
check_spool_inodes
check_log_space
check_log_inodes
