accumulation of files in /var/spool/mqueue.in

[Julian Field]

At 19:12 10/03/2003, you wrote:
>Greetings,
>
>Using RH 7.3
>Using Sendmail 8.11-6
>MailScanner 4.13-3
>Using McAfee AV
>
>I have been happily using MailScanner for almost a year now and have had to
>remove the accumulation of files in /var/spool/mqueue.in after a month or
>so.
>
>I am not sure if these are messages already delivered and were not removed
>or ?
>
>I have had no reports of missing email.

If they are stray files that aren't part of a matching qf / df pair, then
you can safely delete them. If an SMTP session into your server gets
interrupted for some reason, a stray file will be left behind. The server
at the far end of the session knows that its message transmission got
interrupted and will retry anyway. SMTP is designed pretty carefully to
ensure things don't get lost in transit.
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