Quarantine Clean Up

[Mike McMullen]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Julian Field" <mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 11:25 AM
Subject: Re: Quarantine Clean Up


> At 19:18 30/09/2004, you wrote:
> >Hi All,
> >
> >Are there any "best practices" regarding cleaning out the quarantine area?
> >
> >I have stuff from April forward in there and feel the need to do some
> >house cleaning.
>
> There is already a "clean.quarantine" script that I supply with
> MailScanner. If you are using the RPM distributions, then you will find it
> is already in your /etc/cron.daily directory. However, I ship it disabled.
> If you edit it (it's just a text file) you will find a couple of obvious
> definitions at the top. One disables the script, the other sets the
> lifetime of the quarantine.
>
> Set those 2 values appropriately, and you're away. Most people keep
> quarantine for a month or so.
> --

Geesh! My wife is right. I AM an oaf sometimes. Definitely a bad
case of RTFM.

Thanks Julian!

Mike

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