[Mimedefang] FreeBSD 5.4, MD 2.54, and Quarantine Directories

[WBrown at e1b.org]

mimedefang-bounces at lists.roaringpenguin.com wrote on 01/21/2006 02:09:26 
PM:

> I ran into a problem quarantining messages on a FreeBSD 5.4 box.
> Specifically, I hit the upper limit for the number of directories a
> single directory can hold (32767).  I store about 2 weeks of quarantined
> mail in case anything needs to be released and I average over 3000
> quarantined messages daily.

I would argue this is counter to the idea of MIMEDefang and sendmail 
milters in general.  If the milter doesn't like the message, we refuse 
delivery and it should (actually, RFCs say *miust*) be returned by the 
sending server to the sender.  The only time I suggest quarantining a 
message is when a copy must be held because lawyers are likely to become 
involved.