Description of problem: when working on the today's update I found that I was lacking / space. after killing old kernels and their sources, I've stumbled upon a giant directory in /var/spool : 'clientmqueue' is 14 GO in size and eats more than 60% of the / space... what is it for ? there are just plain text files here, from some bytes to hundred of megabytes... the oldest one is from the day I've installed Mageia 8 on my machine and there are new files everyday that piles up in it. why it is not purged regularily ? it is a 'spool' after all... is there a bug that that's been ignored in Mageia8? is it safe to purge it manualy ? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Mageia 8 new install after 3 monthes... How reproducible: ? Steps to Reproduce: 1. have a look at your /var/spool/clientmqueue dir and see if it has inflated like mine 2. 3. Bugsquad Help !!!
CC: (none) => jfbachelet
Assigning to the registered maintainer of sendmail
Assignee: bugsquad => cjwCC: (none) => davidwhodginsSummary: found a giant /var/spool/clienmqueue dir eating 60%++ of my / ! => found a giant /var/spool/clientmqueue dir eating 60%++ of my / !Source RPM: (none) => sendmail-8.16.1-1.mga8.src.rpm
As to the contents of the file, I think it's mail sent by programs on that computer. Probably just messsages to the root user from various cron jobs. Running the mail command as root (in a terminal such as konsole or gnome-terminal) will allow you to confirm that. I normally use postfix rather then sendmail, so I'm not sure if there's anything in that file that should not be deleted. I'll leave that for the maintainer to answer whether or not it's safe to delete it's contents. https://www.networkinghowtos.com/howto/sendmail-mail-aliases/ shows how to create an alias in sendmail. It would be best to add an alias to your user id and using a mail program to monitor those messages.
Maybe you have jobs on your system (as said earlier, mostly cron jobs) trying to send mail (using the sendmail command I guess), but you do not have a sendmail daemon configured and running that processes this queue. If you did, these mails would be delivered to /var/spool/mail/ , where mail clients can access them, or to external mail servers. If you want to receive such e-mails, you need to configure an e-mail system I suppose. Otherwise you can just remove this queue, and remove sendmail from the system so the queue does not get filled again...
Due to no response from the reporter for over one year...closing as OLD.
Resolution: (none) => OLDStatus: NEW => RESOLVED