About quarantined mails

[Boulytchev, Vasiliy]

Well,
        Is there an automatic function in MailScanner to clean out
quarantine directories?  Or do I just keep running my perl script?
(Quarantine directory got to 20 gig before I noticed what was going on
:)))))))

-----Original Message-----
From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
Behalf Of Julian Field
Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 1:36 PM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: About quarantined mails



At 20:19 16/09/2003, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have a question about quarantined mails.  I installed MailScanner 
>4.23-11 on a RH7.3 Linux system.  It seems working now.  Some users are

>worried about missing some of non-spam mails.  The following are some 
>of my configuration lines:
>
>Quarantine Dir = /var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine
>Quarantine Infections = yes
>Quarantine Whole Message = yes
>Quarantine Whole Messages As Queue Files = yes
>
>Virus Scanning = yes
>Virus Scanners = clamav
>Virus Scanner Timeout = 300
>Deliver Disinfected Files = yes
>Deliver Cleaned Messages = yes
>
>Use SpamAssassin = yes
>Spam Actions = store

Add
         High Scoring Spam Actions = store
to this lot.

>....
>
>My questions are:
>
>1. Some mails are quarantined in 
>/var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine/20030916/spam (for today).  When I 
>check them, I find some of them are not junk mails.  How to deliver 
>them to the supposed receiver?

Drop the qf+df pair into the outgoing queue.

>2. I notice that each quarantined mail is splitted into 2 parts, e.g. 
>the name is dfh8GFS6v13245 and qfh8GFS6v13245.  If there is a way to 
>re-deliver this mail, how to "combine" or merge them into an "original"

>or regular mail to deliver?

Yes, drop them in the outgoing queue (and then run sendmail -q to force
a queue run).

>3. Some other mails are simply rejected by MailScanner, and root 
>received a copy of "rejecting mail".  Again, some of them are not 
>junk-mails.

The logs should contain some reason for why they were rejected.

>4. How to adjust the rule to reduce in-correct quarantining and 
>rejecting non-junk mails?

Change the Required SpamAssassin Score

>5. If a mail has any virus, will that mail be quarantined or repaired? 
>How to check the information?

It will be quarantined, and the "cleaned" message will be delivered to
the original recipient. Check it in your maillog.


>Thanks!
>
>Hongwei

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