I recently installed qmail-scanner with clamav and spamassassin. Over the weekend, I had twenty-three thousand some odd messages left in working/new, and it filled up the partition I was using. So I had a couple of questions.If something crashes - e.g. the remote (sender) SMTP client, or some part of Q-S - say clamav in your case. The logs (either syslog or multiloog) would definitely tell you.
1. Under what circumstances is a file left in working/new? My debug value is set to 1.
2. What is a safe amount of time, after which you can be certain qmail-scanner is no longer using a file in working/new? The thirty hours qmail-scanner -z seems to use does not appear to be deleting these files
from crontab.
What does "doesn't seem" mean? Are the files >30 hours old? If not, then Q-S won't delete them, if they are, then are you sure the cronjob is working? Try running it by hand
3. What does a remote machine see when a file is left in working/new? A deferral notice? An error?Yup - it gets a "temp failure" error and tries again later. With a busy site, a misconfiguration with your AV can easily lead to problems with large numbers of files lying around.
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