My xmail servers are only pass through boxes for redundancy and virus 
scanning (and yes, my retry is 1 day so having a 2 day purge is perfect 
in my scenario). 
The only things that ever stay in my spool are ndr's back to spammers.

Thanks!

Davide Libenzi wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, Dale Qualls wrote:
>
>   
>> As my spool gets inundated with  junk, I run this command every day at 
>> 11:30 p.m. via a cron job.
>> find /var/MailRoot/spool -depth -name *.MX2 -ctime 1 -delete
>>
>> MX2 is the name of one of my xmail boxes so all files in the spool have 
>> it appended to the end of the filename by default.
>>
>> Works like a charm :)  This actually looks at the current day plus 1 day 
>> so you'll always have files 2+ (but less than 3) days old in your 
>> spool.  Checkout the man page on "find" to see the options for times 
>> (minutes, hours, etc...)
>>     
>
> This is rather wrong though, if your total spool message age can be longer 
> than one day. To be safe, just use 2*T where T is the total time a message 
> can live inside the spool (depends on the re-send policy params).
>
>
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