atom feed8 messages in net.sourceforge.lists.courier-usersRe: [courier-users] mail queue purge
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Mark ConstableOct 12, 2006 7:21 pm 
Sam VarshavchikOct 13, 2006 4:06 am 
Mark ConstableOct 13, 2006 5:08 am 
Shawn M. JonesOct 13, 2006 5:24 am 
jero...@free.frOct 13, 2006 5:27 am 
Aine DouglasOct 13, 2006 6:17 am 
Bowie BaileyOct 13, 2006 9:45 am 
Mark BucciarelliOct 16, 2006 6:04 am 
Subject:Re: [courier-users] mail queue purge
From:Sam Varshavchik (mrs@courier-mta.com)
Date:Oct 13, 2006 4:06:14 am
List:net.sourceforge.lists.courier-users

Mark Constable writes:

Just a thought, at the moment we have 21,000 messages in our mailq after blocking with spamcop and a few others. I'm sure we're in the middle of a spamstorm and that it's 95% spam in the queue.

We've got so much load atm that some messages are taking up to 20 hours to be actually delivered. Spamassassin seems to be the main culprit slowing things down.

Would it be reasonable to script up something that could roll over the messages in the queue and "purge" the most obvious spam quickly and easily ?

That'll work, but you'll have to run the 'courier cancel' command to purge each individual message, or stop Courier before manually removing the three files in the queue directories, per each message.