Hello,

I recently implemented amavisd-new (amavisd-new-2.6.4_5,1) on a FreeBSD 
mail server. I am using both postfix and spamassassin with it. I have 2 
problems happening and I am not sure how to start figuring this out. I 
apologize if this is trivial.

1. /var/amavis/tmp has 7,000 (and growing) leftover directories in it.

I have turned up my log level to 5 and watched my mail log. I can see 
that it is definitely cleaning up some of the dirs, ie:
amavis[8032]: (08032-01) rmdir_recursively: 
/var/amavis/tmp/amavis-20100406T102829-08032/parts, excl=1

When I sample the email inside some of those leftover directories I find 
what looks like a bulk email. It is unclear to me if it is true spam or 
not. I also see this occasionally in the maillog:

amavis[8540]: (08540-17) (!)PRESERVING EVIDENCE in 
/var/amavis/tmp/amavis-20100406T104452-08540

That particular email.txt looks like a bulk email. It is an ad from 
Beliefnet - Daily Specials. Not necessarily spam.

I see references in the documentation to not letting this directory fill 
up too much. I am not sure what "too much" is. Is this "normal" behavior?


2. The $QUARANTINEDIR = '/var/virusmails' has 1400 (and growing) entries 
in it. Only about 50 of those are virus-xxx the rest are spam-xxx. 
Reviewing them they all look legitimate as spam and viruses. My question 
is again, how much is "normal" or to be expected? Is this a directory 
that I need to clean out with some cron job?


Any direction or help with this is very appreciated.

Sincerely,
Peter




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