very old messages in /var/spool/mqueue.in

[Julian Field]

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Scott Silva wrote:
> on 11/7/2007 11:36 PM Götz Reinicke spake the following:
>> Hi,
>>
>> what is qf/df :-? and is ther a way to do this kind of cleaning
>> automatically?
>>
>> Thanks and best regards
>>
>> Götz
> find /path/to/files* -mtime +5 -exec rm {} \;
>
> set /path/to/files* to the queue path and the 5 is the default
> amount of time that sendmail retries sending messages before giving
>  up. Adjust that amount to  what your system does. To be safe you
> could set it to +7.
>
> When the above is working properly, you can add it to a daily cron
> job.
>
There is an "official" answer from some very elderly sendmail
documentation. It runs like this:

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cd $QUEUE

# remove zero length qf files
for qffile in qf*
do
        if [ -r $qffile ]; then
                if [ ! -s $qffile ]; then
                        rm -f $qffile
                fi
        fi
done
# rename tf files to be qf if the qf does not exist
for tffile in tf*
do
        qffile=`echo $tffile | sed 's/t/q/'`
        # JKF 15/7/98 Put $qffile in quotes in case tffile = 'tf*'
        if [ -r $tffile -a ! -f "$qffile" ]; then
                mv $tffile $qffile
        else
                if [ -f $tffile ]; then
                        rm -f $tffile
                fi
        fi
done
# remove df files with no corresponding qf files
for dffile in df*
do
        qffile=`echo $dffile | sed 's/d/q/'`
        if [ -r $dffile -a ! -f $qffile ]; then
                mv $dffile `echo $dffile | sed 's/d/D/'`
        fi
done
# announce files that have been saved during disaster recovery
for xffile in [A-Z]f*
do
        if [ -f $xffile ]; then
                echo " <saved mail spool $xffile>\c"
        fi
done
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That's how I do it on my Sun boxes.

Jules

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