On 06/10/17, Wilfred van Velzen pondered and said...
 
 Wv> Probably. If you have defined or use some hudson areas, and messages end
 Wv> up in them, you are bound to run out of space at some point in time.
 Wv> Of course you can automate things by running the FTools commands in a
 Wv> periodic maintenance batch job. I'm running 'FToolsW32.exe MAINT /D /N
 Wv> /O /P' every night...

OK I fixed it (of sorts)

The import process I use each time I run a poll to the NNTP server generates
4 netmails per poll (an hourly thing). The Hudson base has a limit of around
606/607 messages so when that filled up I hit problems. That happened a long
time ago... in a galaxy.. well you get the idea 

I checked the netmail dir I had defined and there were some 11,000+ *.MSG
files sitting there unable to be imported. 

I found in the docs the hudson base was called #NETM in the docs so I ran

ftoolsw32 delete #NETM
ftoolsw32 maint /h /d /n /o /p

then I removed all the old *.msg files.

Now I can add the delete and maint switched to run as part of nightly maint
to keep the base clear. It's only ever (I hope) going to get netmail from the
gateway tool that I use.

Do areafix netmail get stored there or are they just processed and removed?

Best, Paul

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