[Mimedefang] Newbie question....

[Hamilton, Kent]

Mark, 

Hmmm, the way it looked in the code to me was that if it had a
"UNFINISHED" file in the directory then the message had never been
delivered. Is that not true? 


--
Kent Hamilton <KHamilton at Hunter.COM>
Manager - Systems Admin & Networking
Hunter Engineering Company


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Roedel [mailto:MarkRoedel at letu.edu] 
> Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 14:20
> To: mimedefang at lists.roaringpenguin.com
> Cc: KHamilton at Hunter.com
> Subject: RE: [Mimedefang] Newbie question....
> 
> 
> > -----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.
> 
> 
> ---
> Mark Roedel           | "Blessed is he who has learned to laugh
> Systems Programmer    |  at himself, for he shall never cease
> LeTourneau University |  to be entertained."
> Longview, Texas, USA  |                          -- John Powell
> 
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