Grex Oldcoop Conference

Item 335: e-mail has not been working since Sunday

Entered by trh on Mon Jun 12 18:00:41 2006:

Just in case our administrators are not aware of it.

Her is the message I get:

/var/spool: create/symlink failed, no inodes free
Mail to trh...
mailer returned error status 1

Thanks,

Ahmet
13 responses total.
#1 of 13 by keesan on Mon Jun 12 19:29:40 2006:

Since before Sunday and staff does know but the only person able to fix this
problem is on vacation and will get to it later.  Do you know how to set up
and use exim?

#2 of 13 by naftee on Mon Jun 12 20:27:44 2006:

thank you please mosque

#3 of 13 by robh on Mon Jun 12 21:43:54 2006:

Mail doesn't seem to be coming in for me, and I assume exim isn't
going to fix that.  >8)  Time estimate on how long it will be?

#4 of 13 by keesan on Mon Jun 12 23:52:38 2006:

See agora item 4.  Mail is not going in or out, even between grexers.

#5 of 13 by trh on Tue Jun 13 03:16:18 2006:

In response to Response 2 from Sindi:

Sindi, unfortunately I do now anything about exim.

Ahmet

#6 of 13 by keesan on Tue Jun 13 14:39:16 2006:

Re 5, unfortunately the staff member who set it up is no longer on staff and
the other volunteer staff will either have to learn exim (someone else is
trying to explain it, I think) or change to some other system.  

If you only want to use grex for reliable mail, try instead sdf.lonestar.org,
which has only been down a few days in the past few years (last week).  $1
gets you a lot of mailbox and also a shell account with useful programs (such
as antiword to convert doc to txt before downloading attachments).

#7 of 13 by glenda on Wed Jun 14 01:16:49 2006:

Or they were just too busy to deal with it.  STeve is currently working on
it.

And it isn't exim's fault.  It is another idiot sending out tens of thousands
of pieces of mail.  Probably someone that gave a sob story about needing
access to outgoing mail and being given access to doing so.

#8 of 13 by steve on Wed Jun 14 02:02:31 2006:

  About 101,000 peices of spam.  I am killing them now.  Once this is 
done (and it will take longer than the time for me to drive back to aa
from msu), I will look at the rest of the queue and zap other stuff,
then turn mail back on.

#9 of 13 by keesan on Wed Jun 14 03:09:17 2006:

Is this a new user or a dormant old user?  I hope AOL does not blacklist us
again, after I promised nobody from here would ever send spam there again.
It is a real pain having to use webmail after dialing grex in order to write
AOL dummies.  Is anyone working on a daily or hourly quota for outgoing mail?

#10 of 13 by mcnally on Wed Jun 14 08:26:40 2006:

 I'm sure that the outgoing spam flood issue is a serious problem, but I
 would like to point out that it's probably not the *only* problem, or even
 the only MAJOR problem.

#11 of 13 by cross on Wed Jun 14 22:25:57 2006:

Probably not.  Moreover, this doesn't address the issue that only an annointed
few actually know how to make exim on grex work.

#12 of 13 by cmcgee on Thu Jun 15 18:37:11 2006:

I just today received forwarded mail that had been sent to me at Grex on May
19th.  Almost like the post office losing hardcopy letters.

All I want to know is which staffer found the hidden electrons and shipped
them on.  *grin*

#13 of 13 by naftee on Fri Jun 16 01:03:24 2006:

unblcuky !

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