I stopped Dovecot, backed up the tens of thousands of files in /var/spool/smtpd/offline/, then deleted them, then started Dovecot again. Everything runs fine, so I guess those files weren't important, at least not to Dovecot.
I also found the major problem consuming so much /var space was Void Linux' package cache files, so I deleted all of those more than 3 months old. Soon I'll make a daemon or a cron job that deletes old files in these two directories, and probably a lot more.
Thanks,
SteveT Steve Litt http://444domains.com
Steve Litt via dovecot said on Sat, 31 Aug 2024 10:49:04 -0400
OK, but will it hurt to delete the ones older than a week? A month? A year?
SteveT
Marc via dovecot said on Sat, 31 Aug 2024 14:40:02 +0000
start to worry when it is quattuordecillions!!!!
I just filled up my whole /var with zillions of files /var/spool/smtpd/offline , dating back to 2018. What are these files and is it safe for me to delete the ones more than a week old?
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