residual mails

[Julian Field]

At 08:54 22/10/2002, you wrote:
>I've upgraded to 4.xx version released. Thanks Julian. I feel a major
>enhancement is the facility to use rules for any setting. Great feature
>apart from the speed and enhancement of vulnerability protection.
>
>Over the past few months, I've noticed that some residual dfxxxxx files
>remain in the mqueue.in directory. Mailscanner does not seem to flush them
>at all into the regular mail queue. Why would this happen and can we force
>mailscanner to process these mails?

df files with no qf files tend to be left behind by incoming messages that
got interrupted. As long as they are reasonably old you can just delete them.

>In V4 rules, can we specify a not condition using a ! before the match
>string for exclusion?

Not yet...
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Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
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