At 03:24 PM 3/9/2007, Francisco Castellon wrote: >I just noticed on my system that there are millions of messages in >/var/amavisd/quarantine amounting to about 14G and that there thousands >in /var/amavisd/tmp amounting to about 4g. > >I am not using amavisd for virus scanning at the time being I am just >using it along with postfix + spamassasin to block out spam. on my >/etc/amavisd.conf I have set the $final_spam_destiny flag to D_PASS I >just mark the message with ***POSSIBLE SPAM*** in the subject. I was >under the understanding that messages only ended up in the quarantine >directory if the flag was set to D_REJECT. So why is this happening? And >even if it was the case that they are supposed to end up in the >quarantine anyways isn't the cleanup agent supposed to clean them out >after they get to be like a week old or so?
If you want to disable quarantine completely, you can set $QUARANTINEDIR = undef; in your amavisd.conf file. amavisd-new doesn't automatically clean up stuff in the quarantine, you need to do that yourself. Most folks use a crontab entry for this, but since you don't want these files just remove them all. find /var/amavisd/quarantine -print | xargs rm The stuff in the amavisd-new tmpdir is evidence left over from crashes or other unexpected actions. You need to clean these up manually also. A crontab entry similar to this should do the trick: 49 1 * * * /usr/bin/find /var/amavis/tmp/ -mtime +7 -print | xargs rm \; When you get files hanging in the tmp directory, it's useful to check the logs and see what failed. See: http://www.ijs.si/software/amavisd/#faq-gen -- Noel Jones ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ AMaViS-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amavis-user AMaViS-FAQ:http://www.amavis.org/amavis-faq.php3 AMaViS-HowTos:http://www.amavis.org/howto/
