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

[Mark McCoy]

Do a 'man find' first.  On some Unices, "-mtime +3" means "older than
3 minutes", not "older than 3 days".

On 3/31/06, Jeff A. Earickson <jaearick at colby.edu> wrote:
> 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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