Hi there,
Hopefully someone can help me with a problem we're having with
(probably) qmail.
Main system feature is : Solaris 2.6 / Webshield SMTP
As part of the Webshield virus scanner, a version of qmail appears to
have been installed.
We use sendmail as the main connection to the Internet. The qmail system
appears to have a number of messages which can't be delivered, and since
these are multi-megabyte in size, they quickly fill up the 300Mb of free
space we have in the root partition.
The question is, can I delete these messages from the queue directory
structure?
I've tried deleting the files manually, but while I can temporarilly
remove them from the mess/nn subdirectory, they re-appear sometime
later. The only other reference to these files is in the intd directory.
Again I've tried deleting them from there. Even stopping qmail, deleting
the files (they went from both intd and mess subdirs) and restarting
qmail. They're starting to come back ... where else are these damned
messages stored? The fact is they are junk and can be deleted. I suspect
that there is a delivery problem (eg server not responding/not accepting
the messages) so they're not being bounced as undeliverable. There isn't
the disk space available to have qmail timeout these messages gracefully
after the 40 failed attempts.
I've yet to try changing the file message date on the file in the mess
subdirs. Does anyone have any other suggestions. I note from all the
other questions relating to message deletions, that the intd directory
rarely gets a mention. Is this something uniqe to the fact we're running
Webshield?
Thanks for any assistance you can give.
Wallace Nicoll.
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