Bug 13483

Summary: If unconfigured nullmailer, huge log size and make host run out of space
Product: Koha Reporter: Pablo AB <pablo.bianchi>
Component: Staff interfaceAssignee: Bugs List <koha-bugs>
Status: CLOSED INVALID QA Contact: Testopia <testopia>
Severity: normal    
Priority: P5 - low CC: gmcharlt
Version: Main   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
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Description Pablo AB 2014-12-19 11:28:44 UTC 
On a Koha fresh install Koha install and ask for setup info for nullmailer package. As this sometimes doesn't look mandatory is usually left unconfigured: bad mistake: This make mail.log increase in gigabytes steps until runing out of space (as Marco Moreno says on bug #12364/c1):

$ ls -lahS /var/log/mail.*
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm  39G Dec 14 06:46 /var/log/mail.log.1
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm  15G Dec 19 08:20 /var/log/mail.log
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm  11G Dec 14 06:46 /var/log/mail.err.1
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 4.0G Dec 19 08:20 /var/log/mail.err

.err white lines like: nullmailer[938]: Sending failed:  Host not found
Comment 1 Katrin Fischer 2023-07-28 20:49:27 UTC 
I believe this sounds more like a system administration than a Koha issue. Please reopen if you disagree.