[Mimedefang] Newbie Question...

Mickey Hill mickey at rudolphtire.com
Tue Jul 9 20:12:01 EDT 2002


> BTW, I forgot to say thanks to Mickey Hill for the excellent 
> How-To page -

You're welcome.  Glad it helped.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: mimedefang-admin at lists.roaringpenguin.com 
> [mailto:mimedefang-admin at lists.roaringpenguin.com] On Behalf 
> Of Steve Robb
> Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 11:34 AM
> To: 'mimedefang at lists.roaringpenguin.com'
> Subject: RE: [Mimedefang] Newbie Question...
> 
> 
> BTW, I forgot to say thanks to Mickey Hill for the excellent 
> How-To page -
> couldn't have got it running without it.
> 
> Steve Robb
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Robb 
> Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 7:29 AM
> To: 'mimedefang at lists.roaringpenguin.com'
> Subject: RE: [Mimedefang] Newbie Question...
> 
> 
> Thanks, I'll give it a try...
> 
> Steve Robb
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David F. Skoll [mailto:dfs at roaringpenguin.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 7:17 AM
> To: 'mimedefang at lists.roaringpenguin.com'
> Subject: Re: [Mimedefang] Newbie Question...
> 
> 
> On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Steve Robb wrote:
> 
> > One question I have is related to it's behavior when a process dies.
> > If it's in the middle of processing some messages, and it 
> receives a 
> > kill signal, I've noticed that the temp work directories are left 
> > around. Even after it restarts, it doesn't clean them up. Does this 
> > mean that those messages were never delivered? Or were they queued 
> > somewhere else and are processed later?
> 
> You'd have to check your sendmail logs; probably, the messages are not
> delivered and the sending relay gets a tempfail message.
> 
> You might want to have a cron job which cleans out the spool directory
> periodically.  Something like:
> 
> find /var/spool/MIMEDefang -maxdepth 1 -name 'mdefang-*-*' 
> -type d -mtime +5
> | xargs rm -rf
> 
> should do the trick.  It will delete spool directories older 
> than 5 days,
> which should be safe.
> 
> --
> David.
> 
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