How to clear /var/spool/output/msglog folder

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Can someone tell me is it safe to delete content of /var/spool/output/msglog folder? 
 Hard drive on clients SG135 (converted to XG v18.04) is full and because of that mails sre blocked: 
 console> system diagnostics show disk 
 Partition Utilization(%) 
 =============================== 
 configuration 10% 
 content 2% 
 report 100% 
 =============================== 
 SG135_XN01_SFOS 18.0.4 MR-4# du -sh /var/spool/output/msglog 
 231.4G /var/spool/output/msglog 
 =============================== 
 I have tried to delete reports from GUI (Report settings - manual purge) and from CLI (Advanced shell - purge reports) but it was helpful for a moment - it created about 20GB of free space but it was lost in two days. Disk was full again and previous steps was not helpful any more. 
 So, i have about 1400 files (each about 165MB size) that has occupied HDD and now XG is blocking sending and recieving mails. 
 Is it safe to delete those files with rm /var/spool/outout/msglog/* ? 
 Any idea? I am not running out of time ... i was two days ago so pls 
 Thanks in advance

Zlatko Markser · Accepted Answer

I have managed to solve problem ... a lot of mails was stuck in Exim and (luckily for me) i have found similar situation with script that has helped me with this: 
 https://community.sophos.com/sophos-xg-firewall/f/discussions/126237/v18-mta-smtp-general-questions 
 I changed one line to adjust script and deleted stucked mails: 
 # service smtpd:stop -ds nosync 200 OK # exim -bp | awk '{print $2}' | while IFS= read -r line; do > exim -Mrm $line > done 
 # rm /var/spool/output/db/* # service smtpd:start -ds nosync 
 print $2 instead $3 has gave me Message ID instead sender because command exim -Mrm works with Message ID

rfcat_vk · Answer

Hi, 
 changing the retention time of your reports should automatically reduce the number of files stored. 
 Ian

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