A question about mqueue.in directory

[John Schmerold]

To clean them up, run:
find /var/spool/mqueue.in -type f -mtime +2 -exec rm {} \;

I'm not sure what's going on, however I have a number of stragglers left 
in my queue as well.

John Schmerold
Katy Computer & Wireless
20 Meramec Station Rd
Valley Park MO 63088
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775-227-6947 f



Hakan VELIOGLU wrote:
> Thanks for the answer.
>
> I searched for df and qf files and there is one df file and all the 
> other 565
> files are qf.
>
> Is this means that there is a problem or configuration error ?
>
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>  Konu: Re: A question about mqueue.in directory
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>> Hakan VELIOGLU wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am new with sendmail and mailscanner, and I got a question about 
>>> mqueue.in
>>> directory. Our mailgateway server is up for two weeks and it has 566 
>>> old files
>>> in /var/spool/mqueue.in/ directory.
>>>
>>> Is it normal? and why this happens?
>>
>> Yes.  Unless you are getting qf files as well as the df files.
>>
>> The df files are generated first and if there is a milter error or the
>> remote server disconnects the files are left in the directory.
>>
>> If you have qf files then you need to do more investigation as
>> MailScanner should be processing them and deleting them.
>>
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