[SOLVED] Postfix Folders

[Mo_Hong]

Hi All,
Hope you're doing fine. I got the following issue. We have an install that already has become a bit too large for the server it is in. We already have everything migrated to a new server, but still there is no date defined to switch servers. Ok, the problem is the following, aside from big mailboxes from the users, we have folders in /opt/zimbra/postfix/spool with an enormous amount of messages that are slowing the server for example:

[root@mail postfix]# cd spool/
[root@mail spool]# ls
active bounce corrupt defer deferred flush hold incoming maildrop pid private public saved trace
[root@mail spool]# cd defer
[root@mail defer]# ls
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
[root@mail defer]# du -h
72M ./9
75M ./2
20M ./F
77M ./D
77M ./C
77M ./7
76M ./1
81M ./3
81M ./8
81M ./B
80M ./0
83M ./5
82M ./A
84M ./4
80M ./E
80M ./6
1.2G .
[root@mail defer]#

My question is: Can I delete the subfolders inside the following to cleanup my install???:

active
bounce
corrupt
defer
deferred
flush
hold
incoming
maildrop
pid
private
public
saved
trace

Thanks in advance,
Ed

[raj]

Hi..if you dont care about all the emails sitting in the SPOOL (defer, deffered, active..) then you can clean (DELETE) it using

** to clean ALL postfix spool folders ****
/opt/zimbra/postfix/sbin/postsuper -d ALL

** to clean jut the deferred postfix spool ****
/opt/zimbra/postfix/sbin/postsuper -d ALL deferred


IMP: you dont want to delete the physical folder structure you listed..it will break postfix

Raj

[Mo_Hong]

Raj,
Thanks for your reply. It helped at least to reduce my storage problem. Right now I need my users to cleanup their spam and erased mails. Again, thanks in advance for your help.

Regards,
Ed