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

David F. Skoll dfs at roaringpenguin.com
Wed Jul 14 08:41:48 EDT 2004


On Wed, 14 Jul 2004, Hermino Neder wrote:

> 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?

Yes.

If you stop Sendmail and MIMEDefang, in fact, it's perfectly safe to:

	rm -rf /var/spool/MIMEDefang/mdefang-*

and then restart the services.

Regards,

David.



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