[Mimedefang] Newbie question....

[Mark Roedel]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hamilton, Kent [mailto:KHamilton at Hunter.COM] 
> Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 11:24 AM
> To: 'mimedefang at lists.roaringpenguin.com'
> Subject: [Mimedefang] Newbie question....
> 
> 
> I'm just trying to set up MIMEDefang with SpamAssassin on a 
> FreeBSD box and I'm seeing a lot of directories accumulate in
> the mimedefang spool directory that are never being cleared
> out. I'm getting a lot of filter timeouts in the logs which I
> assume is the reason for this. Am I doing something wrong here
> or is this normal? How to I get the messages that are out there
> re-injected in the mail system. I looked for some kinda of
> "Catch up" flag but didn't see anything.

I've seen a lot less of this since I started using the Multiplexor, so
if you're not doing that already, you might consider it.  (And if you
are, it might be worth enabling the multiplexor logging to help you get
a feel for whether your parameters might need a bit of tweaking.)

Having said that...

In my experience, a filter timeout results in a TempFail being sent to
the sending MTA, which in turn means that it'll take another shot at
sending the message later. As I understand things, then, there shouldn't
be any real need to try to reprocess those particular directories...I've
just got a cronjob that runs hourly to remove any of the MIMEDefang work
directories that are more than two hours old.


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