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.
I purged the directories meanwhile and restarted everything. However, the directories keep growing sometimes at a rapid rate. The strange thing is that I can check /var/spool/qmailscan/qmail-queue.log, find an entry like Thu, 27 Sep 2007 06:38:22 EST:2609: SA: yup, this smells like SPAM - hits=6.4/4.2/4.2 - tagging message... Thu, 27 Sep 2007 06:38:22 EST:2609: SA: finished scan in 6.022031 secs - hits=6.4/4.2 Thu, 27 Sep 2007 06:38:22 EST:2609: p_s: finished scan in 0.022091 secs Thu, 27 Sep 2007 06:38:22 EST:2609: ini_sc: finished scan of "/var/spool/qmailscan/tmp/mail11908930947182609"... Thu, 27 Sep 2007 06:38:22 EST:2609: ------ Process 2609 finished. Total of 7.881787 secs However, if I check for /var/spool/qmailscan/tmp/mail11908930947182609 that directory still exists and there are files in it. Should these files not be deleted once they aren't needed any more? Any hints why they are not getting deleted? Cheers, Christian ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
