On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 10:57, Tony Finch wrote:
> Nigel Metheringham <Nigel.Metheringham@???> wrote:
> >exim.org ran its /var partition out of space yesterday, which contains
> >the (ever growing) logs and exim spool space. This means that for a
> >while it was not possible to write msglog data (among other things)
> >which resulted in a few messages being sent multiple times*.
> >
> >[*] If the msglog canot be written the record of which addresses have
> >been delivered to can be lost, which means that on the next queue run
> >previously delivered addresses are tried again...
>
> No, that's the journal file not the msglog. Msglogs are just extracts from
> the mainlog.
You are, of course, right. There were messages regarding both of those
not being written (msglogs in main log, journals in panic log). I have
zilched the message logs as suggested by Ollie now.
This all goes to show I spend too little time at the sharp end of mail
systems now :-(
Nigel.
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