Linux e Mailserver
Hello everybody,
I've a problem with my mail server and I hope you can help me.
I use Mandrake 8.0 with qmail as email server, and it have always work good.
Recently I couldn't send no many more emails because there is not enough space available on the device for qmail, also f I know that there is still a lot of space.

In few words if I send an email I get this answer:

Unknown error. Object '', Account: 'mioaccount', Server: 'my.ip.address', Protocol: SMTP, Answer from server: '451 qq write error or disk full (#4.3.0)', Port: 25, Protection (SSL): No, Error from server: 451, Error number: 0x800CCC6A

on the disk quota is not enabled and I have 2 giga of space free, please help!
Lorenzo

Is it possible that only a partition is full? Have you checked 'df -k'?

-Dan

Great, you center the problem at the first shoot, the result of df -k is:
/dev/hda1 2355984 2236860 0 100% /
/dev/hda6 1541680 200636 1262732 14% /home
so... how I can clean the hda1? I'm starting to feel so newbie...
Thanks again

Well, considering that the only directory that has it's own partition is /home, there is probably a lot that can be cleaned out. Check /tmp for starters, there may be at least a little space there. Next, check wherever you compile packages from. Maybe /usr/local/src ? Dump all the old tarballz and/or rpm's that you may have. If you have recompiled the kernel, dump the old kernel source. Each recent kernel unpacked is well over 100MB. The tarball is over 20MB by itself now.

-Dan

Thank you for your help,
as soon as I've deleted some files the space grow from 0% to 2%, and the mail go back at work. So thank you agains!!
But about deleting more files, really I'm getting in trouble because I find only logs to delete but nothing that take many space.. how it is possible to reach more free space?

Well, you really don't have that much space to begin with. A nice bloated stock install of mandrake with X installed, will easily eat up well over a gig. Also, I'm sure a large chunk of that space is wasted on your swap file. Like I said before, look for any tarballz, and rpm's that you may have lying around. Aside from that, the only other way would be to start uninstalling some of the unnecessary packages on the machine.

-Dan

Ooopps,
I hope I don't abuse of your help, but reading your email I found another problem, my Xserver doesn't want to start no more. The last time I've started it I've shutdown my server giving shutdown command from a console windows in kde evironment, (I've make a big error I know) and now the Xserver doesn't want to start because it didn't find the Xfont (predefinited). I hope to be not too much off topics, and to not disturb you more. :)
Thank you

This is the last lines of the output that I get when I startx:

_FontTransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2
failed to set default font path 'unix/:-1'
Fatal server error:
could not open default font 'fixed'

When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send
the full server output, not just the last messages

XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0"
after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.

Let me know, if needed I can post all the output (not only last things) (if the moderator doesn't fire me before!)