I decided, as I am now a grown-up geek, to run my entire oldyorksalsa.com domain from my home box. It does the DNS, it is the mailserver, and it’s the webserver. Today I tried to change some of the content on the web page and was told that the disk was full.

I found that the default installation of the operating system likes to log LOTS of information, and that it had indeed filled up the disk. I looked in a few logs to see if I could fix any problems and in one log it was complaining that it was getting mails for someone at watdenku.demon.co.uk and didn’t know how to forward them. I explained to it how to forward them.

Turns out, it was trying to notify me, by email, of this problem.

By sending email to steve at watdenku.demon.co.uk.

As soon as I fixed the snarl-up, I received 1150 messages to this effect.

Moments later, another 45. I hope outlook express isn’t going to go “bing” for every single one of these messages…

[edit] … oo here come another 463…

[edit] … having deleted over 2000 emails while reading the manual for the mail system, I’ve found out how to look in the mail queue… there seems to be about another 6000 to go…