Now I want to restore the *.TMP files into the SCRATCH folder because

there are also some legitimate mails between the garbage mails. But

Mercury does not care about the *.TMP files and they are still in the

SCRATCH folder. Restarting Mercury did not help. I tried it also only

with just a few mails - no change. Any suggestions?

I assume that you are receiving the mail via MercuryD and these temp files in the SCRATCH directory were created by the program when the mail was downloaded via MercuryD.  This is not always true since there can be other TMP files in the SCRATCH directory.  I also assume that these are RFC 2822 message files.  If so then you can convert them to 101 files and put them into the queue by adding the following lines to the top of the good messages and save them to the queue.

Hi all,

I had a mail flooding on my Mercury Mail Server yesterday caused by another program which had a progamming failure. So I stopped Mercury, fixed the buggy program causing the mail flooding and backuped the maildir of the recipients that received some gigabyte of garbage mail. I also had to backup the whole SCRATCH folder and created a new one because the harddisk ran out of space (SCRATCH folder has 182846 files with around .

Now I want to restore the *.TMP files into the SCRATCH folder because there are also some legitimate mails between the garbage mails. But Mercury does not care about the *.TMP files and they are still in the SCRATCH folder. Restarting Mercury did not help. I tried it also only with just a few mails - no change. Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Matthias