I have about 1100 files in my mqueue.in directory. Looking at them I see that majority are orphaned spam message bodies. I checked the mailscanner lists and found references to these files being left there from unclean program shutdowns or reboots etc.

You could write a script to shutdown mailscanner, run tmpwatch to clean out files older than a certain amount of days and then restart mailscanner.

Probably more of a mailscanner issue than a Centos one.

On 1/20/07, John R Pierce pierce@hogranch.com wrote:

Indunil Jayasooriya wrote:

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Hi,

I am happily running sendmail with MailScanner on CentOS 4.4. But I have an question. My question is that there are huge number of mails in /var/spool/mqueue.in .

Why is that? My hard disk would go to waste. Can I delete them? or are these real mails.

the only reasonable answer to your question is, something is broken on your configuration, and the mailscaner/sendmail stack isn't performing according to plan.

has nothing to do with CentOS, actually.

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