Can folders and files inside /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming be deleted??

[Julian Field]

vinayan KP wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I am very new to MailScanner and I hope someone could help me to fix
> my problem of mailscanner eating up my hard disk space?
>
> I just found out that /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming folder has lot
> of folders and one of them occupies a lot of space.  I just want to
> know whether I can remover these folders and files that take lot of
> space?
>   
If you stop MailScanner, you can then delete the contents of 
/var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/(any numbered subdirectory), and the 
SpamAssassin-Temp directory. It will re-create the SpamAssassin-Temp 
directory if you remove it.

You shouldn't have files collecting in there, MailScanner does its 
housekeeping to stop it collecting files. You don't stop it with "kill 
-9" do you? If so, then DON'T as this will stop it doing its 
housekeeping. It takes MailScanner a few seconds to stop, as it is doing 
its cleaning-up of /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming.

Don't delete any files in there while MailScanner is running.

Jules

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