There are two, sometimes four types of files found in this
directory. Files that begin with df contain the actual body of the
message. Files that begin with qf contain the internet headers of the
message. The other two types of files (xf and tf files) I have only seen
around when sendmail is actually processing the message.
Files that are in this directory are used by the sendmail process. You can
control the size of the message that sendmail will accept by editing the
sendmail.cf file. Specifically you want to edit the "MaxMessageSize" flag.
We have set our max message size to 7100000. This allows a normal message
with an attachment that is ~5MB. We chose this number bc our mbox soft
quota is 5 MB.
At 11:30 AM 1/10/01 -0500, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>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?
>
>any help appreciated!
>
>~David Andrews
