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Hi all,<br />
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I've got a web server that has accumulated many messages in its outgoing mail queue which I'd like to delete (purge). &nbsp;Can I just go into the spool directory (/home/virtual/admin1/var/<wbr />spool/mque<wbr />ue.site/) and delete all the files in there?<br />
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Will this cause any other problems? &nbsp;If so, how would I go about deleting all these messages.<br />
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Cheers,<br />
<br />
Scooter126ca
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Hi all,

I've got a web server that has accumulated many messages in its outgoing mail queue which I'd like to delete (purge).  Can I just go into the spool directory (/home/virtual/admin1/var/spool/mqueue.site/) and delete all the files in there?

Will this cause any other problems?  If so, how would I go about deleting all these messages.

Cheers,

Scooter126ca

Purging mail queues

Within Internet message handling services (MHS), a message transfer agent or mail transfer agent (MTA) or mail relay is software that transfers electronic mail messages from one computer to another using a client–server application architecture. A MTA implements both the client (sending) and server (receiving) portions of the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP). The terms mail server, mail exchanger, and MX host may also refer to a computer performing the MTA function. The Domain Name System (DNS) associates a mail server to a domain with mail exchanger (MX) resource records containing the domain name of a host providing MTA services.