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 at hogranch.com> wrote: > > Indunil Jayasooriya wrote: > > > > 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. > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070120/a102e2fd/attachment-0005.html>