Quarantine behaviour

[Jason Ede]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Nick Brown
> Sent: 25 November 2009 05:49
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Quarantine behaviour
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> Have happily been running MailScanner in front of 15k+ mailboxes for
> some time without issue, distributed over two physically diverse mail
> gateways. We have recently been looking at developing and offering a
> quarantine option to users, however obviously this presents the issue
> of needing to centralise the quarantine store. The last thing we want
> to do is to provide a value add service at the expense of our
> redundancy, so have been tasked with looking into what options we have
> available to us.
> 
> In a simple world we simply configure one gateway to store quarantined
> mail locally, the other to store to an NFS mount, in the event the
> first server dies - so be it, quarantine stops working, presumably
> mail will be dumped in a local directory and then I just have to pick
> it up and move it to the quarantine store once all is well again
> (Technically speaking the quarantine store will actually be a third
> box, most likely connected via iSCSI).
> 
> However I'm interested to hear if this is how others have actually
> seen MailScanner behave, or better yet - is there a cleaner suggestion
> out there, as I can't help but feel like this is a dirty hack.The
> other option that crossed my mind was to look at a MySQL file system,
> however seems like overkill.
> 
> Cheers
> Nick.

Have you looked at mailwatch to do the very thing you're thinking of?

http://mailwatch.sourceforge.net/doku.php

Jason