My server has just created 805Mb file in /var/spool/postfix/maildrop
called D8AE419185, this has left me little space in /var.

Any ideas as to what this file may be and can I get rid of it?

Bob wrote:
> My server has just created 805Mb file in /var/spool/postfix/maildrop
> called D8AE419185, this has left me little space in /var.
>
> Any ideas as to what this file may be and can I get rid of it?
>

Using the super user account (root), you should be able to get an idea
of what the file is with a command such as:


postcat -q D8AE419185 | head -n 200 | less

The file can be deleted with: postsuper -d D8AE419185

You can also limit the max message size in main.cf with
the message_size_limit configuration, such as:

message_size_limit = 10240000

for a limit of 10 megabytes.

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Greg