Hi, Yes know, I know, that ANY OUT of SPACE problem is SPECIALLY administrator's problem and please check my previous answer ... Out of space on the disk is my problem, but I want to know, why postfix receive message to it's spool (another partition - lot of space) and when postfix uses dovecot to deliver message to the inbox, where is NO space, why message is lost and removed from qmgr.
thanks a lot :-) Peter > > On 5/9/2011 10:37 AM, Petr Svacina wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Please I have a question: >> >> If my server is out of space (disk full) and the postfix is LDA, the new >> messages a deffered or refused,so postfix send 450 to sender ... >> But When I use dovecot (1.2.16) like LDA, postfix accept message (even there >> is no space), forward to dovecot, dovecot REFUSE the message and message is >> lost ! >> >> How can I solve this ? I don't want tu use quota and the disk was full, >> because of the other problem .... > > This is more of a mail server admin 101 issue than a Dovecot issue. > Putting your log, mail spool, and user mail directories on separate > partitions, physical disks, or SAN LUNs will prevent such a problem from > occurring 99% of the time, assuming you have planned and sized your > storage appropriately for your environment. At minimum you should have > your spool and user mail storage on different partitions. To avoid this > issue the other 1% of the time, use monitoring or log summary tools to > notify you of disk space usage so you know when you're close to running > out of space. For instance, I receive the following as part of my daily > logwatch summary on my personal domain MX: > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/sda2 33G 4.2G 28G 14% / > /dev/sda1 92M 8.4M 79M 10% /boot > /dev/sda6 94G 1.2G 92G 2% /home > /dev/sda7 94G 25G 70G 26% /samba > > Note that I have both system logs and the mail spool on / but user mail > directories in /home. This setup is acceptable for a low volume server. > For a high volume server the mail spool should be on a dedicated > partition, as well as user mail dirs. > > If you already know all of this and an unforeseen issue caused your > problem, accept my apologies for preaching to the choir. > > -- > Stan > -- Tato zprava byla prohledana na vyskyt viru a nebezpecneho obsahu antivirovym systemem MailScanner a zda se byt cista.
