Re: /var/spool/qmailscan/tmp and /var/spool/qmailscan/working

At 17:09 +1000 22-09-2007, Christian Lerrahn wrote:
>Hi,
>I have the problem that on my server it has happened before that
>because of an unfortunate setup /var ran out of space and the
>qmail processes stopped. Now I have the impression that when I made
>space and restarted the qmail services, some of the files
>in /var/spool/qmailscan/tmp and /var/spool/qmailscan/working seemed to
>not be processed any more and stayed there forever. I assume that these
>are just copies of email in the queue and I could safely delete them
>but before I end up losing plenty of email, I wanted to make sure. Can
>I safely purge these 2 directories without risking data loss? If not,
>is there a simple way of recovering emails that are stuck in there?
>

Hi

You should stop qmail and wait until all the active connections are 
close properly, then you can safely remove purge those directories, 
and restart qmail.

ST

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