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

[vinayan KP]

Sir,

Thank you very much for your mail and I could fix the problem.

Vinu

On 9/14/07, Julian Field <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>
> 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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