Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 12:33:33 -0500 From: "Alejandro Ramirez" <ales@megared.net.mx> To: "Alejandro Ramirez" <ales@megared.net.mx>, "Doug Young" <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Sendmail Stuff Message-ID: <01d701beed8d$9f989060$d4630a0a@megared.net.mx> References: <011701beed17$efdafed0$817e03cb@2000> <014e01beed8b$1ddccfc0$d4630a0a@megared.net.mx>
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BTW If the mail has allready been delivered to your localhost, you may see the mail in the /var/mail directory, if there are many files, and you want to see them, just "Mail -f <filename>" and you wiil reading the mails you want. Ales > Hi, > > What are te mail messages that are filling your disk???, maybe you > should see them, because it could be something wrong with your system, you > may see the mesages in the /var/spool/mqueue directory with the "mailq" > command, also there is a section in the sendmail.cf file where you can tell > him how much disk space it will have to write mesages in the mail queue: > > # minimum number of free blocks on filesystem > O MinFreeBlocks=125000 > > With the default blocks of 8k, I have 2GB slice for /var, then I have 1GB > configured for my mail queue, for restricting sendmail of filling my disk. > > If you dont see any important information in the queue, just "cd > /var/spool/mqueue", and "rm *". > > I hope this can help you... > > Ales > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Doug Young <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au> > To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> > Sent: Sunday, August 22, 1999 10:31 PM > Subject: Sendmail Stuff > > > > How does one disable sendmail o it doesn't keep filling the hard drive up > > with useless messages I never asked for ..... when I install FreeBSD from > > CD. > > it just seems to install sendmail automatically, then after a day or so I > > get messages > > telling me I'm running out of space in /var/spool ...... but dunno how to > > get in there > > to delete stuff > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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