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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Qmail-scanner-general mailing list Qmail-scanner-general@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qmail-scanner-general
