Viktor Dukhovni: > On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 04:38:42PM -0400, Wietse Venema wrote: > > > > Is this something I may have misconfigured without knowing it? > > > > This is not configurable. When the queue manager selects message > > FOO for delivery, it deletes defer/FOO. > > It is also possible that an unclean shutdown or similar leaves > orphaned defer files around because the deletion never completes.
But that was not the scenario as reported: mail is delayed, and after the queue clears, some defer files stay behind. > Or that someone manually deleted a queue file without deleting the > corresponding "defer" file. That was adamantly denied. I don't want to treat the reporter as unreliable unless I have reasons to do so (sloppy, incoherent, inconsistent language). > When using "long queue ids" it is safe to delete sufficiently old > deferred files by hand, if the corresponding queue files are no > longer around. > > This was discussed in a recent thread this year... > > -- > Viktor. >
