Re-initialize postfix spool directories

circus78 · 06-04-2014, 01:34 PM

Hi,

I manually deleted lots of message in /var/spool/postfix/defer and /var/spool/postfix/deferred

Now, mailq says that I've just 3 email in queue.
But I noticed that I still have several (about 30000) files under /var/spool/postfix/* directories.

How can I completely erase my queue?
Thank you

G_A · 06-04-2014, 01:37 PM

How about:
sudo postsuper -d ALL

circus78 · 06-05-2014, 06:21 AM

Hi, I already did this:

Quote:

# time postsuper -d ALL
postsuper: Deleted: 6 messages

real 7m16.440s
user 0m0.008s
sys 0m51.095s

anyway, I notice that every time I use "mailq" command, it takes a very long time.
Furthermore:

Quote:

# ls -la
totale 220104
drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 4096 28 mag 17:26 .
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 12 lug 2010 ..
drwx------ 2 postfix root 118841344 5 giu 12:50 active
drwx------ 2 postfix root 4096 5 giu 10:52 bounce
drwx------ 2 postfix root 4096 12 lug 2010 corrupt
drwx------ 18 postfix root 4096 25 set 2010 defer
drwx------ 18 postfix root 4096 25 set 2010 deferred
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 5 giu 06:27 dev
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 4 giu 10:21 etc
drwx------ 2 postfix root 4096 4 giu 12:41 flush
drwx------ 2 postfix root 4096 12 lug 2010 hold
drwx------ 2 postfix root 106237952 5 giu 12:34 incoming
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 4 giu 10:21 lib
drwx-wx--T 2 postfix postdrop 4096 5 giu 12:34 maildrop
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 4 feb 2012 pid
drwx------ 2 postfix root 4096 4 giu 12:17 private
drwx--s--- 2 postfix postdrop 4096 4 giu 12:17 public
drwx------ 2 postfix root 4096 12 lug 2010 saved
drwx------ 2 postfix root 4096 30 mag 10:28 trace
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 12 lug 2010 usr

this is quite strange..

G_A · 06-05-2014, 07:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by circus78

Hi, I already did this:

anyway, I notice that every time I use "mailq" command, it takes a very long time.
Furthermore:

this is quite strange..

I might be stating the obvious(and the dangerous), but: Did you try stopping Postfix and any other mail related software, entering those dir's and moving/deleting all the files in them ?