spam actions

[Ugo Bellavance]

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Kevin Miller wrote:
> I've always forwarded my spam to an account on my exchange server
> (alphonse_spamdog) so I can forward false positives, and such.  But now I've
> installed MailWatch, so have the quarantine dir on my linux box which was
> previously unused.  I delete anything older than 2 weeks on Exchange but
> have to do that manually.  On the linux gateway is it safe to just run a
> cronjob to get rid of old messages?

see /etc/cron.daily/clean.quarantine

>  What will that do to MailWatch/mysql?
> Will it care?

MailWatch will not be aware so you might end up trying to release a
message that has been deleted by your cronjob.  You can also use a
script to do the same thing to mysql. Search the archives for
clean_mailwatch.

>
> Hope this isn't too off topic...
>
> ...Kevin
> --
> Kevin Miller                Registered Linux User No: 307357
> CBJ MIS Dept.               Network Systems Admin., Mail Admin.
> 155 South Seward Street     ph: (907) 586-0242
> Juneau, Alaska 99801        fax: (907 586-4500
>

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