Re: [exim] Clearing out old spool files

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Author: Heiko Schlittermann
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Clearing out old spool files
John Horne <john.horne@???> (Di 30 Jun 2009 18:39:53 CEST):
> Hello,
>
> We are running exim 4.69 on CentOS 5.3, and I have been looking through
> the '/var/spool/exim/input' and '/var/spool/exim/msglog' directories on
> one of our mailhubs and can see some quite old files in there (the
> oldest was from 2007).


AFAIK: The msglog is not used by exim it all (except writing to the
msglog as long as the message is in transit, the same information can be
found in the mainlog).

The old spool files (2 per message (-H and -D)) can be removed too. (There
is no information stored somewhere else.)

Better than using find is using `expick' and exim itself. (IMHO part of the exim
package). Consult it's man page for information about exipick and pass
its output to `exim -Mrm'.

    Best regards from Dresden/Germany
    Viele Grüße aus Dresden
    Heiko Schlittermann
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