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

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Tue Mar 11 08:39:15 GMT 2003


At 02:47 11/03/2003, you wrote:
>What I'm wondering, though, is it safe to delete the files in mqueue.in
>with sendmail/MailScanner running? [sounds like a potential FAQ, as
>well]

It's pretty safe, yes. The worst that can happen is that you manage to kill
a MailScanner child process, which will cause it produce a replacement
child process.
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