quarantine rotation

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Sat Jan 18 13:08:02 GMT 2003


At 01:40 18/01/2003, you wrote:
>because we're accumulating 80k files in the quarantine each day it
>makes it difficult/impossible to do certain simple tasks like "ls"
>and "grep".
>
>Is there a way to tell mailscanner to rotate the quarantines more
>quickly than once per day?  Should we just write something to rotate
>the quarantines ourselves?

Not directly in MailScanner itself. You will need to write a little script
to do it for you. Quite how you do it will depend on how easy it needs to
be to recover a file from the quarantine.
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Julian Field
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