HELP Please Issue with a Cur/New Folder 68Gbs within those folders
Someone please help me
Situation: I send newsletters out and its not working at all, before is was staggering, but now, nothing is being sent.
I repaired the exim (used: exim -bp | grep \< | awk '{print $3}' | xargs exim -Mrm ) to clear the emails
Normally this helps and takes out all the clutter.
So i had softlayer look into it and we both can see that between the New & Cur folders there is 68gbs stored.
Softlayer will not remove the files and gave me a few scripts.
(cd /home/hiphop/mail/new && rm -rf * AND cd /home/hiphop/mail/cur && rm -rf *)
These didnt work at all, the time out and say -bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long
I think this its because of the SIZE of the folders. I tried to go in with Transmit, then Fugu, Nothing.
Softlayer is refusing to help with removal, last coding they sent doesn't work either.
(find /home/hiphop/mail/new/ -type f -exec rm -rfv {} \; AND find /home/hiphop/mail/cur/ -type f -exec rm -rfv {} \;)
Please can someone help me figure this out. I really need to get my newsletter up and running again.
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Hello :) I'm not sure that the size of the email directories would prevent new emails from sending out. Have you reviewed /var/log/exim_mainlog to determine the specific failure reason for messages sent out with your newsletter? Thank you. 0 -
Taking the large mail folder problem: One way of dealing with the large folders if you want to remove ALL the mail they contain if to rm -rf the folder itself (cur new). Take note of the ownership and permission on the folder first. You should then recreate it, set the ownership and permissions correctly. Alternatively, give [url=http://configserver.com/cp/cmm.html]ConfigServer Mail Manage a try, this will allow you to clear the mailbox from whm, it may take a while to run but I've not actually seen it fail (although I've never removed 70G of mail with it ;) ) 0
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