Thanks all for the help regarding the var/spool/mqueue directory!
Another question - as a result of this problem locking my server (its all
now under control), I have a locked file in var/spool/mail/.username.pop.
How do I go about deleting this file? The rm command doesn't seem to do it?
The user can not get mail because of this.
Again, your help is GREATLY appreciated, if I could buy you all a nice cold
one I would :)
~David Andrews
-----Original Message-----
From: A. M. Salim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 12:17 PM
To: Subscribers of Qpopper
Subject: Re: /var/spool/mqueue ?
> Can someone tell me about files in this directory /var/spool/mqueue?
> Does this have to do with Qpopper or Sendmail? I had some HUGE files
> in there today that killed my server because it ran out of disk space.
> I think this is where incoming mail is spooled?
this is where OUTGOING mail is spooled by sendmail. Someone was sending
HUGE files through your system. You can usually tell more by looking at
the files with "similar" filenames, theyb start with different letters but
the rest of the filename is the same. The smaller files hold the info on
whodunnit.
best regards
Mike
