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   Hi logsat,
I have seen that there is no function in logsat to secure email-receiving when the harddisk is out of space. I remember that SF spool al incomming mails in the system memory and do not sending (forwarding) anymore emails when harddisk is out of space.
I think that is an good idea to implement a function to diable receiving of new emails if space on harddisk will be less than x MB space and send an alert-message to blablabla@adminDomain

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kp4711 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 04 December 2006 Location: Germany Status: Offline Points: 33	Post Options Post Reply Quote kp4711 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: action taken when disk is out of space Posted: 03 August 2007 at 6:32am
	Hi logsat, I have seen that there is no function in logsat to secure email-receiving when the harddisk is out of space. I remember that SF spool al incomming mails in the system memory and do not sending (forwarding) anymore emails when harddisk is out of space. I think that is an good idea to implement a function to diable receiving of new emails if space on harddisk will be less than x MB space and send an alert-message to blablabla@adminDomain

LogSat Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 25 January 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 4104	Post Options Post Reply Quote LogSat Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 03 August 2007 at 4:06pm
	We've added the request to the wish list. We do however recommend using other tools monitoring the hardware, as they often do a much better job in alerting and recovering fro similar problems.
	Roberto Franceschetti LogSat Software Spam Filter ISP

kp4711 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 04 December 2006 Location: Germany Status: Offline Points: 33	Post Options Post Reply Quote kp4711 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 06 August 2007 at 4:56am
	great!!! I know that it is a better way to monitor the system ba some system tools. My intention was to impliment a feature for "last chance" so that no incomming mails are lost, when there is a system faillure like harddisk out of space.

pcmatt Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 15 February 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 116	Post Options Post Reply Quote pcmatt Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 15 August 2007 at 9:53am
	This is critical because other tools are not tied to SpamFilter processing logic and not everyone can afford to be watching monitoring tools 24/7/365. Right now when SpamFilter runs out of disk space it keeps trying to work and ends up sending permanent failures to every inbound email attempt. A simple API call to verify that there is disk space available to run can prevent this. If the SpamFilter service shuts down at least a backup MX handler can keep the mail flowing. Furhtermore, you are better off with no MX handler, as email would queue up on sending servers, than having a SF server with no disk space sending permanent errors for every email. Edited by pcmatt - 15 August 2007 at 9:54am
	-Matt R

Desperado Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 27 January 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 1143	Post Options Post Reply Quote Desperado Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 15 August 2007 at 1:32pm
	The information is in the event viewer and is available via WMI with some simple VB programming. We get the following message (which is then sent to my pager) when disk space needs attention: Device: MX01 - 66.181.xxx.xxx Service: Disk State Transition: From Normal To Warning Time Of State Transition: 2007-08-15 05:37:41.345 -0500 Probe(s):
	The Desperado Dan Seligmann. Work: http://www.mags.net Personal: http://www.desperado.com

sgeorge Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 23 August 2005 Status: Offline Points: 178	Post Options Post Reply Quote sgeorge Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 17 August 2007 at 2:49pm
	Another option would be to go under the Administrative Tools section in Windows (NT-based OSs) and to create a Performance counter, such as LogicalDisk % Free Space < 10%. When the condition is found to be true, the Action you specify could include: * Running a 3rd party script to e-mail a sys admin about the condition * Or, running "net stop SpamFilter" to shut-down SpamFilter right away I hope that's handy! Stephen

pcmatt Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 15 February 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 116	Post Options Post Reply Quote pcmatt Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 21 August 2007 at 5:45pm
	These suggestions are good but rely on other than the application to protect it's own integrity. I like the performance counter option because I don't have to get paged in the middle of the night, but the downside is we're then relying on Microsoft's Performance Counters reliability and stability to save SpamFilter. SpamFilter should protect itself; my opinion.
	-Matt R

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