Hi, I use procmail v3.21 and the mailboxes are in /var/spool/mail, but the free space on this partition is almost 0, I tried to moved some mailboxes to another filesystem, /var/spool/mail2, and make symbolic links to them in /var/spool/mail but when an email arrives it create a file and overwrite the link, I read the man pages for procmail and they said that no links are permitted.

For the mails that i symlinked to /var/spool/mail i create a .procmailrc file with the DEFAULT var pointing to /var/spool/mail2 on the HOME of the users that I moved, actually the mail is deliver to /var/spool/mail2 but when a new email arrives overwrite the link with a file $LOGNAME with 0 bytes so i can't read it even when it exist on the other file system (/var/spool/mail2). How can i read the mailbox directly from /var/spool/mail2 and not from a symlink in /var/spool/mail.

I don't know what else to do I tried to make LVM but the kernel that i use don't permit LVM.

Any suggestion?

Thanks in advance.

the mailboxes are in /var/spool/mail, but the free space on this partition is almost 0, I tried to moved some mailboxes to another filesystem, /var/spool/mail2
Prolly just an example but "/var/spool/mail2" doesn't sound like a different partition to me. If you have space on a different partition you could copy mailboxes over (check if they're not in use) and then mount --bind the new over the old dir. As temporary workaround that could do. The real solution prolly would be asking users to clean up mailboxes RSN...

Hi, thanks for your answer, actually I have space on the other partition but is the same that I have on /var/spool/mail so move and mount do not help in this case. On the other hand I sent an email asking them to clean up their mailboxes but they just ignored it, I think i should send and ultimatum to clean or to lose their mailboxes. thanks again.