Gateway OVA temporary files stacking up in /var/spool/postfix/maildrop

Products

• CA API Gateway

Issue/Introduction

Intermittently the Gateway appliance runs out of inodes, this is caused by large amounts of files in the /var/spool/postfix/maildrop directory

Not sure why this occurs we have disabled postfix on all our gateways 

 

Environment

Gateway 11.1.1

Resolution

Most of the mails (99%) are generated due to crontab.  When any job is executed and the jobs cannot run normally it will send email to root. 

Set MAILTO=”” variable at the start of your crontab file. This will also disable email alert. Edit/Open your cron jobs: $ crontab -e At the top of the file, enter: MAILTO=""

 

Additional Information

Need to determine what messages are being stored  maildrop folder 

This can be done at anytime not just when the problem occurs 

Example:  cat the files in /var/spool/postfix/maildrop

typcal cron job"

# cat 9A74F215

T1759324840 632609Arewrite_context=localF

encoding=8bitRgatewayMNFrom: root (Cron Daemon)