Left over temp and tnef files

David Lee dlee.aus at gmail.com
Thu Sep 26 23:40:53 IST 2013


> I just found some leftover garbage from MS which I'd like to not be there
:-)
> First I am getting tnefXXXX folders under /var/spool/postfix/hold that
are not getting cleaned up.
> Second there are 771806 files under
/var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/SpamAssassin-Temp/
> (rm is having a hard time cleaning these up, 780k files making up 60MB)
>
> I'm running MS 4.84.5 on: FC 18 with Perl version 5.016003 (5.16.3)
>
> Does anyone have an explanation for this and possibly a fix ?
> I believe the tnef files are form MS's tnef decoder and the SA-Temp is
being used at least by clamav.

There is currently and open issue for a problem very similar to what you
are seeing with regards to tnefXXXXX folders:
https://github.com/MailScanner/MailScanner/issues/7

--
David


On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 12:51 AM, Arjan Melein <Amelein at dantumadiel.eu>wrote:

> I just found some leftover garbage from MS which I'd like to not be there
> :-)
> First I am getting tnefXXXX folders under /var/spool/postfix/hold that are
> not getting cleaned up.
> Second there are 771806 files under
> /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/SpamAssassin-Temp/ (rm is having a hard
> time cleaning these up, 780k files making up 60MB)
>
> I'm running MS 4.84.5 on: FC 18 with Perl version 5.016003 (5.16.3)
>
> Does anyone have an explanation for this and possibly a fix ?
> I believe the tnef files are form MS's tnef decoder and the SA-Temp is
> being used at least by clamav.
>
> And on a less important matter, can I move that SA-Temp folder to a
> ramdisk somehow ? MS itself is currently using one too.
>
> -
> Arjan
>
> (and the rest of the modules)
>
> This is Fedora release 18 (Spherical Cow)
> This is Perl version 5.016003 (5.16.3)
>
> This is MailScanner version 4.84.5
> Module versions are:
> 1.01    AnyDBM_File
> 1.30    Archive::Zip
> 0.23    bignum
> 1.26    Carp
> 2.06    Compress::Zlib
> 1.119   Convert::BinHex
> 0.17    Convert::TNEF
> 2.135_06        Data::Dumper
> 2.30    Date::Parse
> 1.04    DirHandle
> 1.11    Fcntl
> 2.84    File::Basename
> 2.23    File::Copy
> 2.02    FileHandle
> 2.08_01 File::Path
> 0.22    File::Temp
> 0.92    Filesys::Df
> 3.69    HTML::Entities
> 3.69    HTML::Parser
> 3.69    HTML::TokeParser
> 1.23    IO
> 1.14    IO::File
> 1.13    IO::Pipe
> 2.11    Mail::Header
> 1.89    Math::BigInt
> 0.22    Math::BigRat
> 3.07    MIME::Base64
> 5.503   MIME::Decoder
> 5.503   MIME::Decoder::UU
> 5.503   MIME::Head
> 5.503   MIME::Parser
> 3.07    MIME::QuotedPrint
> 5.503   MIME::Tools
> 0.15    Net::CIDR
> 1.25    Net::IP
> 0.19    OLE::Storage_Lite
> 1.04    Pod::Escapes
> 3.20    Pod::Simple
> 1.30    POSIX
> 1.25    Scalar::Util
> 2.002   Socket
> 2.34    Storable
> 1.4     Sys::Hostname::Long
> 0.32    Sys::Syslog
> 1.45    Test::Pod
> 0.98    Test::Simple
> 1.9725  Time::HiRes
> 1.02    Time::localtime
>
> Optional module versions are:
> 1.88    Archive::Tar
> 0.23    bignum
> 2.05    Business::ISBN
> 20120719.001    Business::ISBN::Data
> 1.21    Data::Dump
> 1.826   DB_File
> 1.37    DBD::SQLite
> 1.623   DBI
> 1.17    Digest
> 1.03    Digest::HMAC
> 2.51    Digest::MD5
> 2.13    Digest::SHA1
> 1.01    Encode::Detect
> 0.17018 Error
> 0.280205        ExtUtils::CBuilder
> 3.16    ExtUtils::ParseXS
> 2.38    Getopt::Long
> 0.51    Inline
> missing IO::String
> 1.10    IO::Zlib
> 2.27    IP::Country
> 0.29    Mail::ClamAV
> 3.003002        Mail::SpamAssassin
> v2.008  Mail::SPF
> 1.999001        Mail::SPF::Query
> 0.4003  Module::Build
> 0.21    Net::CIDR::Lite
> 0.68    Net::DNS
> v0.003  Net::DNS::Resolver::Programmable
> 0.53    Net::LDAP
>  4.066  NetAddr::IP
> 1.967009        Parse::RecDescent
> missing SAVI
> 3.23    Test::Harness
> 1.23    Test::Manifest
> 2.02    Text::Balanced
> 1.60    URI
> 0.99    version
> 0.84    YAML
>
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