RE: [cobalt-users] Savemail panic in maillog on RaQ4

[flash22@xxxxxxx]

On Sun, 9 Jun 2002, DutchNet Support wrote:

> Hi Dan,
> 
> the virtusertable aan aliases files are clean in other words they do not 
> contain a user or address ww4
> 
> However I scanned the /home and /var filesystems for files containing ww4 
> and much to my surprise I found that each of the directories 
> /home/spool/mqueue/q1 until /home/spool/mqueue/q4 contained more then 
> 20.000 files
> seems to me this should not be true and I wonder if it is save to delete 
> them.
> 
> even a simple ls -la for /home/spool/mqueue/q1 takes for ever :-(
> 
> it seems they are all failed email messages, would it be ok to just delete 
> all these files?

You probably don't have much choice unless you plan to read all 20K
messages ;P

You might want to refuse to accept mail from btamail, as they refuse
bounces ;P

I suspect someone used you for a spam run, you should look at a few
messages and try to figure out where they came from...

ps: try df -i

gsh