About quarantined mails

[Eduardo Andre]

The script clean.quarantine in /etc/cron.daily do this.


Ed.

> 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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