Spam Retrival Problem

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Tue Jan 14 16:15:42 GMT 2003


At 15:37 14/01/2003, you wrote:
>I have a quick question.  Back when we were using MailScanner 2.20 I was
>able to 'tail' my mail.log and retrieve spam based on the message ID from
>/var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine/date/messageid.  Then I would simply
>copy it to /var/spool/mqueue.in and it would go through MailScanner again
>and be delivered (of course after I added the whitelist).  Recently we
>upgraded to 4.11 and I noticed that the messages just sit in that
>directory.  Is there a configuration error that I have made, or something
>I am missing.  Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks everyone!

You need the raw queue files in your quarantine, not the "1 file per
message" format.
Take a look in your MailScanner.conf file for
Quarantine Whole Messages As Queue Files = no
and change it to "yes", then "reload" MailScanner.
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Julian Field
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