[cobalt-users] filesystem [/home] is getting very full

["Networkers Web Services" <web@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

Our server occasionally emails me telling me that the filesystem is very
full....

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is getting very close to full.  This is very dangerous for the server
and can cause unexpected errors to occur.  You either need to move some
files to another storage device and delete them from the Cobalt server
or delete them altogether.  Consult the documentation for help adding
storage to your Cobalt server.

Total disk space:  17682.69 MB
Free disk space:  697.56 MB
Percent Used:  96 %
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This email seems normal, however after some investigation, it looks like
Sendmail seems to be creating junk or useless files (in
"/home/spool/mqueue/"), which eventually cause the server to run out of
diskspace. If we had a bigger drive I assume it would just keep going
until it gets full.

We think it happens whenever someone sends or receives an email, and for
some reason the server doesn't delete the temporary files afterwards. If
we DO delete the files manually, slowly but surely, every hour we can
see a few more files, until as expected, our server emails us again to
tell us the system is full about every 2 weeks.

Any ideas how to fix this?


Cheers,
Andy.