AW: [MAILSCANNER] Many df* & qf* Files in the quarantine directory

[Roland Ehle]

Hi Dale,

> [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] Im Auftrag von Dale Lovelace
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 17. Oktober 2002 21:35
> Betreff: [MAILSCANNER] Many df* & qf* Files in the quarantine
> directory
>   I just today implemented the mailscanner-3.24-1 rpm on a
> fresh Red Hat 8.0 box. I have chosen to "store" all spam for
> now until we are comfortable it is doing what we want. I am
> looking in the /var/spool/MailScanner/<Today'sDate>/
> directory and am finding a great deal of df* & qf* files
> along with the directories I was expecting. Is this normal? I
> notice the script from the MailScanner web site will scan the
> directories there to allow you to read the mail that was
> caught with Pine, but bombs out because of all of the files
> in there rather than only directories.

The files are absolutely normal and if you use df2mbox, you should be
able, to translate the directories contents into a single mailfile, to
check with mutt or any other mailreader. I am using cat filename
>mailbox, to have the spam comfortably put into a special mailbox for
verification purposes.

Regards,
Roland