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Discuss Rotate My Email Log in the Mail Server Help forum on Dev Shed. Rotate My Email Log Mail Server Help forum discussing tips, tricks, techniques and Spam containment solutions. Topics include mail servers such as Sendmail and Qmail, webmail interfaces such as Squirrelmail and Horde and spam solutions such as SpamAssassin and Bayesian
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December 9th, 2003, 08:10 AM
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Rotate My Email Log
My ROOT email file is getting pretty big. Is it as simple as renaming my Root file to a .BAK? or, is there a script to rotate my Mail log files out when they get to a certain size?
Also, I am thinking of going to Qmail from sendmail so that I can have an email server, with IMAP and web access. Has anyone done this? is the transition easy? can I keep my sendmail?
Thanks,
Frog
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December 9th, 2003, 05:07 PM
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Quote: | My ROOT email file is getting pretty big. |
Your mail spool...
Quote: | Is it as simple as renaming my Root file to a .BAK? or, is there a script to rotate my Mail log files out when they get to a certain size? |
...or your mail server log files?
qmail supports the maildir format which stores each message in its own file, rather than all in one enormous file. Regardless, you should be using an MUA to delete your unwanted messages. This will keep your spool file size down (assuming you're talking about your spool file and not your log file).
Quote: | Also, I am thinking of going to Qmail from sendmail so that I can have an email server, with IMAP and web access. Has anyone done this? | Yes
Depends how many users you have, and how many features you have enabled in sendmail at the moment that you rely upon. But it's not too difficult.
No - you won't need to.
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December 10th, 2003, 07:40 AM
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TY Alex
As always Your answer was in depth. { I wonder when U sleep ...  }
Yes, I ment my Mail Spool, and I am seriously looking at the qmail installation.
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Frog
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December 10th, 2003, 02:41 PM
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Quote: | As always Your answer was in depth. { I wonder when U sleep ... } |
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Quote: | Yes, I ment my Mail Spool |
It's probably best to use your MUA (pine, mutt) or POP3 to delete unwanted messages, which will obviously keep down the size of your mail spool.
With maildir and qmail, you won't have this problem -- you can archive messages and move them elsewhere without disrupting the other messages, and have thousands of messages without any noticeable performance problems.
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December 11th, 2003, 07:31 AM
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Thank you for the info...
Frog
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