On Friday 13 October 2006 21:06, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
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.
Thanks for the hint. I'll look into the best way to grep for
the most obvious signs of a spam message and probably stop
the esmtpd server for a few minutes while some script runs.
For now, we just bit the bullet and stopped Spamassassin and
sure enough the mailq is dropping by about 200 msgs per minute
so in a couple of hours we'll re-engage SA but on an empty queue.
Many users will have an extra few dozen spams each but they'll
also have all backed up mail from up to 48 hours ago.
One small thing that was useful was this alias so that we
didn't have to run the mailq command just to see how many
msgs are in the queue...
# alias mq
alias mq='find /var/lib/courier/msgq -type f | wc -l'
BTW can anyone suggest a more efficient spam filter other than
Spamassassin ?
--markc
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