Froxlor "/var/mail" high disk usage

[nisamudeen97]

Hi,

The folder "/var/mail" is having two files "root" and "www-data".  But disk usage for the same is found very high.  It is showing gb's files.   While checking it is found to be mail box for root and www-data user.    See the screen shot.

Is it okay to clear it ? 

 

[d00p]

well, why don't you just view one of the mails in the folder to find out whether it's safe to delete them? Most likely it's cron-mails and similar. You might want to set an alias in /etc/aliases for the user www-data and root to point to an outside email account (run "newaliases" afterwards and restart postfix)

[nisamudeen97]

Hi,

Like the screen shot it is just files.  Mails are getting saved to this particular file.

[d00p]

then there's something weird in your mail-config...usually mails don't get appended to one big file...

[nisamudeen97]

Hi,

 

It is old froxlor version  0.9.34   Running in debain 6.  While verifying the file I could see those are emails getting appended to the file.  I have cleared the file for now.   

Thx for the updates.

[d00p]

has nothing to do with froxlor...our default configs do not do things like that