Spillover queue (was RE: [Mimedefang] Quarantine based on con tent)

[Cormack, Ken]

I like this one, too, Ray.  Thanks.  :)

-----Original Message-----
From: -ray [mailto:ray at ops.selu.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 5:22 PM
To: 'mimedefang at lists.roaringpenguin.com'
Subject: Re: Spillover queue (was RE: [Mimedefang] Quarantine based on
content)


On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, David F. Skoll wrote:

> On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Cormack, Ken wrote:
> 
> > Ideally, I think the best option may just be to wait until the sendmail
> > "spillover host" that I proposed gets budgeted for.
> 
> I use a "spillover host concept" on my main machine.  If you look in
> the Sendmail "contrib" directory, there's a very useful tool called
> "qtool.pl" for moving messages from one queue directory to another.

I am doing the same thing on my main machine, except using the 
re-mqueue.pl script (not sure what the difference is).  And i went 
overboard, creating a 1 hour, 6 hour and 1 day queue.  It's all done from 
crontab, and i have queue runners on the additional queues.  

So basically after a few hours all the undeliverable spam bounces are 
moved to the 1day queue where i can just forget about them.  Here's my 
crontab:

# after sitting enqueue for at least 1 hour, move messages
# to 1h queue to avoid cluttering main queue
# this runs every 30 minutes at :15 and :45
15,45 * * * * root /mailstore/software/usr/sbin/re-mqueue.pl
/mailstore/mqueue/q0/ /mailstore/mqueue/1h/ 3600
15,45 * * * * root /mailstore/software/usr/sbin/re-mqueue.pl
/mailstore/mqueue/q1/ /mailstore/mqueue/1h/ 3600
15,45 * * * * root /mailstore/software/usr/sbin/re-mqueue.pl
/mailstore/mqueue/q2/ /mailstore/mqueue/1h/ 3600
15,45 * * * * root /mailstore/software/usr/sbin/re-mqueue.pl
/mailstore/mqueue/q3/ /mailstore/mqueue/1h/ 3600
15,45 * * * * root /mailstore/software/usr/sbin/re-mqueue.pl
/mailstore/mqueue/q4/ /mailstore/mqueue/1h/ 3600
15,45 * * * * root /mailstore/software/usr/sbin/re-mqueue.pl
/mailstore/mqueue/q5/ /mailstore/mqueue/1h/ 3600
15,45 * * * * root /mailstore/software/usr/sbin/re-mqueue.pl
/mailstore/mqueue/q6/ /mailstore/mqueue/1h/ 3600
15,45 * * * * root /mailstore/software/usr/sbin/re-mqueue.pl
/mailstore/mqueue/q7/ /mailstore/mqueue/1h/ 3600
15,45 * * * * root /mailstore/software/usr/sbin/re-mqueue.pl
/mailstore/mqueue/q8/ /mailstore/mqueue/1h/ 3600
15,45 * * * * root /mailstore/software/usr/sbin/re-mqueue.pl
/mailstore/mqueue/q9/ /mailstore/mqueue/1h/ 3600

# after sitting enqueue for at least 6 hours, move messages
# to 6h queue to avoid cluttering 1h queue
# this runs once an hour at :20 after
20 * * * * root /mailstore/software/usr/sbin/re-mqueue.pl
/mailstore/mqueue/1h/ /mailstore/mqueue/6h/ 21600

# after sitting enqueue for at least a day, move messages
# to 1d queue to avoid cluttering 6h queue
# this runs every two hours at :40 after
40 0-23/2 * * * root /mailstore/software/usr/sbin/re-mqueue.pl
/mailstore/mqueue/6h/ /mailstore/mqueue/1d/ 86400

ray
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Ray DeJean  				       	 http://www.r-a-y.org
Systems Engineer                    Southeastern Louisiana University
IBM Certified Specialist  	      AIX Administration, AIX Support
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