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Hi,

An evil person hacked into my computer last night-- I had a 2nd user account which I used only to allow clients to scp files to me, and this account had a rather 'dumb' password... This was the account that got hacked, anyway, my mailq was filled with thousands of spam emails, so I immediately deleted the user account, and restarted my system...

On my mail user account, when i type mailq, I still see a billion emails showing up........ And I don't know if they are going out as we speak or not.. I tried doing the command "sendmail -bH", but nothing seemed to change...

when I look in /var/spool/postfix/active, I see:

many files such as "000778454FA"... And I am wondering if I should just delete all of these?

If anyone can help me, I would greatly appreciate it.. my aim is patrickco

-patrick

Helo.
You can delete all those files, but take into account that you could delete legitimate emails also. Anyway, if you have been hacked, you should better reinstall your OS...
Regards.