[ale] clearing out root's mail- solved

[William Fragakis]

There was a lot of queued mail so I had to also clear /var/spool/mqueue
and /var/spool/clientmqueue. The amount of queued mail was sufficient to
make it appear that the mailbox was rebuilding (long story).

For the moment, that seems to have done it.

Thanks all for the replies. I was at a dead end and seeing your
responses got my thinking pointed in a different direction.

wf

On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 10:31 -0500, Jim Kinney wrote:
> MB the file and gzip. Then a new empty one will be generated.
> 
> > On Jan 6, 2010 10:25 AM, "William Fragakis" <william at fragakis.com>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > I'm running Centos 5.4. Root's mail file has grown to a cumbersome
> > size.
> > I'd like to clear it out but if I follow the advice I've been able
> > to
> > googe and dum/delete/create new  the file (/var/spool/mail/root),
> > sendmail rebuilds it to the original size.  Is there a step I'm
> > missing?
> > 
> > thanks,
> > William
> > 
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