> On 2/24/21 6:26 AM, Joe Acquisto-j4 wrote: >> For now I will settle on a cron job script that peeks at the hold queue >> every so often and alerts someone (me) with an alert. > > *nod*nod* > > I have a daily cron job that runs a script which shows me: > > - Number of messages which are: > - Normally queued messages for the MTA > - Held (Postfix parlance) / Quarantined (Sendmail parlance) > messages for the MTA > - Normally queued messages for the MSA > - Output of mailq for: > - Held / Quarantined messages > - Normally queued messages for the MSA > > I don't show the output for the normally queued messages for the MTA > because that's a constant state of flux and working like it should. > > I mainly care to see held / quarantined messages and if something's > wrong with the MSA queue. > >> I would have thought there was some mechanism already built in to the >> milter, or postfix, to do that, optionally) but I've not stumbled on >> one thus far. > > There is. The command is called "mailq". It's designed to print status > to STDOUT and be consumed by a human. Many people have this output > emailed to them or apply some sort of script logic to it.
Thanks. Workable. > Note: This MTA administration is decidedly NOT the milter's job. The > milter's job is to filter discrete messages and return a -1 / 0 / 1 > status to the MTA. The MTA is what's responsible for managing /it's/ queue. Ah. Well I did not mean to suggest the milter should "manage" the postfix queue at all, but could alter any "directive" as to disposition. The log messages I noticed, for "infected" mail (/var/log/mail) seem to suggest postifix was dealing with these in a way "directed" by the milter. Perhaps these are "distinctions without a difference" brought about my own, limited familiarity with the tech and terms. > -- > Grant. . . . > unix || die Thanks agian joe a. _______________________________________________ clamav-users mailing list clamav-users@lists.clamav.net https://lists.clamav.net/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml
