Re: [Sheflug] Re: /var & SMTP/fetchmail

[Richard Lowe <nospam [at] Btinternet.com>]

* Harvey Kelly (harvey [at] kelly.uklinux.net) wrote:
> Hello again everyone,
> 
> I've just installed SuSE 7.1 and /var is practically full up already - it's 
> only 64MB small.  What is safe to delete in there, other than /var/tmp?
> 
> Also, I did just a straight forward default-style install, and I haven't 
> buggered with any files, but when I run fetchmail -v it seems to run okay (it 
> recognises me and gets ready to send me my mail), but then at the end ...
> 
> 	reading message 1 of 1 (4309 octets)
> 	fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed	
> 	fetchmail: POP3> QUIT
> 	fetchmail: POP3< On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 06:07:51PM +0100, Jon Masters wrote:
> 	fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from mail.uklinux.net
> 	fetchmail: Query status=10 (SMTP)
> 	fetchmail: normal termination, status 10
> 
> .. has anyone got an idea how to fix this?
> 

Fetchmail, effectively fetches your mail, and dispatches it to local
users through the local smtp server.
So if theres no room in /var it wont be able to add messages to the
users mailboxes (/var/spool/mail/<username>).

There's probably other things that produce the same error, but the only
time I've ever seen it is what I let /var/cache/apt get too big, and
there was no space for mailboxes.

And you do mention you have no room in /var... :-)

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