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

[Jeff A. Earickson]

First, figure out the maximum time that you hold email before returning
it as undeliverable.  Mine is three days, eg "Timeout.queuereturn=3d"
in my sendmail settings.  Then cd to the queue directory in question,
and do:

find . -mtime +3 -print | xargs rm

Voila, old files are gone.  No need to stop sendmail or MailScanner.

Jeff Earickson
Colby College

On Fri, 31 Mar 2006, TAC Forums wrote:

> Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 08:17:19 +0530
> From: TAC Forums <tac.forums at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
> To: MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
> Subject: Re: mqueue and mqueue.in have more files than necessary ... should I
>     worry?
>
>>  Anyway, Sendmail will not be able to do anything about it now
>> so you may as well delete those files to gain some speed, huge amount
>> of files in a single directory makes it slow.
>
> Ah! ... that's incentive enough to make me want to delete these files. :-)
>
> Any tips and ideas on a fast way to delete the unwanted files?
>
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