Safe to delete apparently stale / aged 'spool/sync.' directory?

[Karl Pielorz]

--On 22 November 2016 23:08 +1100 Bron Gondwana via Cyrus-devel 
<cyrus-devel at lists.andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:

> Yes, it's definitely safe to delete wheneven the server is shut down.  We
> remove it as part of the startup script at FastMail, just in case
> something crashed.  Both sync_server and sync_client will create it if
> necessary.  You can probably remove it safely, but if Cyrus is running
> and using replication there is a theoretical probability that a new
> process will start up with that PID and decide to use the directory!

Ok, thanks for the replies - I'll remove them next time we restart the 
service [to be safe]...

Cheers,

-Karl