mqueue and mqueue.in have more files than necessary ... should I worry?

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On 3/31/06, Julian Field <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
> Switch off the incoming sendmail (kill the one that listening for
> messages).

Is that the one that says 'sendmail: accepting connections' when I do
a 'ps ax', or is the one that says '/usr/sbin/sendmail -q15m -OPidFile
/var/run/sendmail.out.pid'

> Wait for MailScanner to stop delivering any new messages.
> Delete everything left in mqueue.in.
> Stop MailScanner completely and restart it.

Wouldn't this work fine too?
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cd /var/spool/mqueue.in
find . -mtime +5 -print | xargs rm
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