Ed Weinberg writes:
> Next I went in to examine the queue and found hundreds of thousands of
> emails in /var/qmail/queue/mess/[0..22].
>
> I grep'ed the files in the directories into rm and got rid of all the
> spam keeping what should be all good mail.
Right, but when you have those filenames, delete the files with
identical names in /var/qmail/queue/info/[0..22], and
/var/qmail/queue/remote/[0..22]. And hopefully you remembered to stop
qmail-send before deleting those files.
> Now qmail seems to be spending lots of time trying to find the files
> it thinks are queued to be sent. (load average: 1.52, 1.61, 1.56 on
> an otherwise idle P120 running RH 5.1). I suspect that it is using the
> files under /var/qmail/queue/remote/[0..22] to tell it to look for the
> files that I deleted, but I can't figure out an easy way to filter
> those out.
>
> What should I do? Should I delete them all? If I do will it rebuild
> them from the files that need to be sent?
Nooooooooo! That would be .... bad. That information came from the
envelope sender and recipient(s). If you delete it, it's gone
forever. Just delete the ones qmail-send is complaining about.
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