[CentOS] Question with MailScanner?

Sat Jan 20 16:15:14 UTC 2007
Don Knott <dknott123 at gmail.com>

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.
>
>
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