[Sheflug] Re: /var & SMTP/fetchmail

[Harvey Kelly <nospam [at] kelly.uklinux.net>]

Hello,

On Friday 20 April 2001 23:23, you wrote:
> * 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>).

I managed to get 100MB for /var and it's fine now - that fixed it, thanks.

>
> 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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