From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 14 14:08:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA19658 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 14 Dec 1998 14:08:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gateway.sitel.net (gateway.sitel.net [206.24.48.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA19641 for ; Mon, 14 Dec 1998 14:08:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jsw@cywub.sitel.net) Received: from dns3.sitel.net by gateway.sitel.net via smtpd (for hub.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.18]) with SMTP; 14 Dec 1998 22:08:27 UT Received: from dev2.sitel.net (dev2.sitel.net [10.252.249.17]) by www.sitel.net (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA28458; Mon, 14 Dec 1998 16:08:13 -0600 Message-Id: <199812142208.WAA11277@cywub.sitel.com> Subject: Re: what's in /var/spool/mqueue To: fabry@panam.edu (Alain G. Fabry) Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 16:08:08 -0600 (CST) From: Jack Winslade Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <036a01be27ab$f93a7000$5531d5c6@earth.coserve.org> from "Alain G. Fabry" at Dec 14, 98 03:51:58 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL20] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > What's in the /var/spool/mqueue directory? > There are two files that are taking up lots of space. Can I delete these > files? > Files are called dfVAA02038, etc Those are the queued mail messages, pending delivery to other systems. Do a 'mailq' command to see what's in queue and why. The d* files are the data, actual message text, and the q* files are the queue files. cat or more the q* file and you can see the header info as well as the current status. Yes, you can remove them if you don't want the mail to be delivered. Also look at /var/log/maillog* Good day JSW To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message