please reply on list On 3/8/07, Hongwei Li <hongwei@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 3/8/07, Hongwei Li <hongwei@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> We have a FC4 linux system that has squirrelmail 1.4.6-3.fc4 installed. It > >> is > >> working normally, does not showing any particular problem. Recently, I > >> notice > >> that the folder /var/spool/squirrelmail/attach gets very big. When I check > >> it, > >> it shows something like: > >> > >> # ls -l /var/spool/squirrelmail/attach/ > >> .... > >> -rw-r--r-- 1 apache apache 2772 Sep 21 15:27 > >> Ym5u50koW5Xu5hltepNscfWeeJKpNc87 > >> -rw------- 1 apache apache 48723603 Oct 3 16:09 > >> yNm6OVldo6OzCUuNWekBw36vR7DTp1hR > >> -rw-r--r-- 1 apache apache 148913 Oct 27 21:21 > >> YRc7iBEWQA4jb1qQ2QMpmV4e4CBNVjqH > >> -rw-r--r-- 1 apache apache 326891 Jul 29 2006 > >> yTtcIMfNNQ50Now1L3coyhMcBA4J3JCn > >> .... > >> > >> These files are html, part header, jpg image, data, etc. My question is what > >> these files are? Are they the attachment to the mails users sent out? or > >> received? I tested my account. When I received an email with attachment, the > >> attach folder does not show any change (hope I didn't miss any fast change). > >> When I attach a file to a mail I am going to send out, the attach folder > >> shows > >> a new entry with the correct time stamp. After I click the Send button, the > >> mail with the attachment was sent out, then that entry in attach folder is > >> gone. If I understand correctly, that folder is for squirrelmail to > >> temporarily hold attachments to send out. If that is correct, does it mean > >> that all of files in my /var/spool/squirrelmail/attach folder are > >> attachments > >> users were going to send out, but failed, so the folder hold them? But, I > > > > Yes, exactly. But SM is not "holding" them per se. The users either > > decided not to send the message or the message send failed for some > > odd reason. This is not any bug, thus no user complaints. All you > > need to do is have a cron job that periodically cleans out attachments > > older than X minutes/days. The website has examples of this. > > > > Thanks for the explanation. I will do it. Where is the website showing this? squirrelmail.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV -- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting Guidelines: http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/MailingListPostingGuidelines List Address: squirrelmail-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx List Archives: http://news.gmane.org/thread.php?group=gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=2995 List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
