On Sat, 18 Oct 2008, Bart Mortelmans wrote: > Hi, > > We have a reasonably large amount of old mails in the spool-folder, all > in the "mess" folders. They appair when running this: > find /var/MailRoot/spool -type f -mtime +30 | grep '/mess/' > > I seem to remember that it has been hinted in the past that such a files > might be left there because of a filter not having released the lock on > the file (probably the filter crashed or took more time to complete then > expected). > I looked up a couple of these mails in the logs and found that they have > been delivered. > > Would it be safe to delete these files, with something like this: > find /var/MailRoot/spool -type f -mtime +30 | grep '/mess/' | xargs rm -f > > Our mailserver retry shedule should retry sending mails for up to > maximum 7 days, so I assume that any file that has been in there for 30 > days isn't being retried anymore. But is it safe to simply delete them?
Yes, but you need to stop XMail while doing that. Also, I'd check your filters since that's definitely not something it should be happening. - Davide - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
