[Mimedefang] cron script to archive MD-Quarantine

[Matthew.van.Eerde at hbinc.com]

Matthew.van.Eerde wrote:
> My /var/spool/MD-Quarantine directory starts to get full
> after a while.
> 
> I'm thinking of writing a cron.monthly script.

Here's what I came up with:
mkdir /var/spool/MD-Quarantine-Archive
chown defang:defang /var/spool/MD-Quarantine-Archive
chmod 750 /var/spool/MD-Quarantine-Archive
cat > /etc/cron.monthly/md-quarantine-archive
(paste the following)
#!/bin/sh
# This archives all MIMEDefang-quarantined email over 31 days old

# archive everything more than 31 days old
find /var/spool/MD-Quarantine -maxdepth 1 -daystart -mtime +31 | xargs tar czvf /var/spool/MD-Quarantine-Archive/31-days-before-`date --iso-8601`.tar.gz

# now delete everything more than 31 days old
find /var/spool/MD-Quarantine -maxdepth 1 -daystart -mtime +31 | xargs rm -rf

exit 0
^C
chmod a+x /etc/cron.monthly/md-quarantine-archive

Matthew.van.Eerde at hbinc.com                      805.964.4554 x902
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