From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 12 19:19:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F87D37B400 for ; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 19:19:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from corp5.cbn.net.id (corp5.cbn.net.id [202.158.3.29]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDB8543E88 for ; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 19:19:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonisetiawan@hotpop.com) Received: from benny (ip58-32.cbn.net.id [202.158.58.32]) by corp5.cbn.net.id (Postfix) with SMTP id 36EB2130F3 for ; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 09:19:26 +0700 (WIT) Message-ID: <00dd01c25aca$f77cf390$6c00a8c0@benny> From: "Joni S" To: Subject: Fw: Mail spool file Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 09:12:04 +0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi all, Since I haven't got the response yet, I repost my question here... I use Sendmail 8.9.3 with FreeBSD 3.3R on my email server running on COMPAQ ProLiant 1600R (RAID 5 configured). Recently I had a problem with my mail spool file. Many of my user's spool file are huge file (400 to 800 MB). Once the users retrieve the email using Qpopper in the server, they got so many garbage inside their inbox. The garbage mail contain some text that might be FreeBSD system, binary, log, or script file. Immediately I checked mail spool files, and..... , yes, they contain garbage message. I stopped SMTP and POP3 daemon, and I run fsck 10 times until it reported no more errors. Then I copied all those mail spool files to other directory. But, when I compared the original mail spool file with the one that I copied, it was not identical. My questions are: 1. Why that many of the big spool files could contain garbage? 2. Why that the copy process did not resulted in two identical file? Thank you so much, Joni Setiawan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message