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

[S Mohan]

I had the same stuff. I looked up a few files and associated mail log.
These were remnants of broken SMTP conversations. In order to clear
these automatically, I created a daily cron job as under.

Find /var/spool/mqueue.in -mtime +6|xargs rm -f

I gave 6 days as sendmail will anyway abort after 5 days delivery. Thus
files older than that anyway would be broken files.

Mohan

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Subject: Re: accumulation of files in /var/spool/mqueue.in


OK, I figured as much.  Thank you for the rapid response.

We are processing about 350,000 emails a day (heavier day) with
MailScanner and Spamassassin.  This figure is combined in and out for
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>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.
>--
>Julian Field
>www.MailScanner.info
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