Thanks for the reply David.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/05/2004 20:28:30:
> On Thu, 5 Feb 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > When I took a look in the /var/spool/MIMEDefang directory, I was
> > quite surprised to see over 12,000 directories with timestamps
> > spanning the previous 7 days.
>
> > It would appear that they weren't deleted because the directory
> > (still) contained contents.
>
> That's odd; recent versions of MIMEDefang are usually good about cleaning
> up, even under heavy load.
>
> Any directories older than about an hour are dead anyway; you can run this
> from cron periodically to clean up:
>
> find /var/spool/MIMEDefang -name 'mdefang-*' -type d -mtime +1 | xargs rm -r
Yes, I knew this was a band-aid solution. Are there any command line swtiches for
MIMEDefang that might be thrown to shed more light on the cause? Output info to a
debugging file perhaps? I'd rather like to squash the cause rather than treat the
symptom.
As you pointed out above, perhaps the rm -r command could be used instead of rmdir
within MIMEDefang. Then the directory structure wouldn't have to be recursively
removed to complete cleanup. The only reason I could think of not doing this is
because the directory was to be purposely left in place as a trail, in the event of
some kind of an error, like what I have been experiencing.
> > Oh, by the way,... Why doesn't the mailing list take advantage of
> > the section in MIMEDefang to strip out the html sections of MIME
> > messages?
>
> It's a conspiracy to get people not to use HTML mail...
I have to say that it is here to stay, rich text messages, that is.
> Regards,
>
> David.
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