[Mimedefang] Is it really safe to delete /var/spool/MIMEDefang after a "4514.7.1 Please try again later" ?

[Hermino Neder]

Hi everybody,

I made a mistake within mimedefang-filter and did not take notice of it 
for two hours, therefore MD could not write RESULT files and send "451 
4.7.1 Please try again later"  to the sender of each email.

Now I have several emails remaining in my /var/spool/MIMEDefang/.. and I 
am not absolutely sure, if they are sent properly in between. (To be 
honest, I do not want to scan my syslog for each of this spooled mails.)

I read in an article written by David, that it would be save to delete 
all the files within  the spool-dir after something like an hour. Is it 
really true?

Well at least a test-email was sent a few minutes after removing the 
error and do a "init-script reload", but this was an internal email.

My conf:   sendmail 8.12.10, MD 2.31, SpamAss 2.53 on Solaris
(Yes I will do  the updates soon (after the release of SA 3.x) , but I 
have the problem _now_ ;-)

Thanks in advance for your help & have a good time

Hermino  (Heidelberg, Germany)


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