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Todd Peters InterPresence, Inc.
Phone: 815-391-8080 Internet Access and Corporate WAN
Fax: 815-391-8086 129 S. Phelps Avenue Suite 206
E-Mail: peters@inpi.com Rockford, IL 61108
On Mon, 7 Oct 1996, Rich Adamson wrote:
> I've seen this same thing several times, and in all cases thus far the
> problem has related to the "lack" of space in the /tmp directory. The
> lack of space could easily be related to the exact number of users that
> are trying to POP3 download mail at any moment.
> As I understand it, some/all POP3 servers make copies of the email that
> is being transmitted to the user and places the copy in the /tmp
> directory. Its supposedly the old fashion way of sharing files, etc.
> If an end user has received an incoming email that has an attachment,
> the attachment is copied to /tmp as well. So, large sendmail files
> equals large disk partitions.
> Rich
> adar0@routers.com
>
> --- On Mon, 7 Oct 1996 14:56:49 -0500 (CDT) Peters Todd <peters@inpi.com> wrote:
>
> >That seems to be the problem here, although it happens with attachments
> >less than 2MB, I think. When the problem occurs, a file pops up in the /tmp
> >directory called "pop384592" or similar.. This file is owned by the
> >subscriber... Sometimes, just deleting that file fixes the problem, but
> >sometimes all of the users' spool must be deleted. I am going to try
> >limiting the attachment size. Does anyone know what causes this?
> >
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> >Todd Peters InterPresence, Inc.
> >Phone: 815-391-8080 Internet Access and Corporate WAN
> >Fax: 815-391-8086 129 S. Phelps Avenue Suite 206
> >E-Mail: peters@inpi.com Rockford, IL 61108
> >
> >On Fri, 4 Oct 1996, Mark Steil wrote:
> >
> >> We have had the same trouble as well, and every customer having the problem has
> a huge >2M file attachment, I solved the problem in Sendmail by limiting the size
> of a file attachment to 2M in the sendmail.cf file and no more complaints..
> >>
> >> Mark Steil
> >> System Administrator
> >> Twin Rivers Valley Internet Services Inc.
> >> Ph 515-887-5900 West Bend Office
> >> Ph 515-379-2545 Livermore Office
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Todd:
> >> The only problems we seem to have like that is if the user either has
> >> WAY too much mail (like some "friend" sent him Microsoft Office as an
> >> attachment) or they have other connection problems.
> >>
> >> Chuck
> >>
> >>
> >> On Fri, 4 Oct 1996, Peters Todd wrote:
> >>
> >> >
> >> > I hope this question is okay for this group, even though it doesn't
> >> > regard portmasters per say... Has anyone had a problem with clients
> >> > checking POP mail? It seems to happen only with Netscape, (although
> >> > one client claims Eudora did it also) - but the queue isn't being
> >> > removed from the server. This is very annoying, and I know that other
> >> > ISP's in the area are having the same problem (netcom included).
> >> > I am using Linux 2.0.18 on the mail server, and POP3D.
> >> >
> >>
> >
>
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