Re: Dynamic Host - SMTP Message Filter Setup

[Jack Miller <jgm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

from Joe Savelberg:

If you've got a lot of files in your post.office message folder, then 
it may be difficult to delete them through the command line -- you 
get an error "too many arguments" using "rm *". Those files are 
created when PO discards a message. I get thousands of files per day 
in that directory due to my Sobig.F filter.

An alternative would be to delete the whole folder and then create a 
new one so post.office continues to work.

However there is another trick you could use:

# cd post.office/messages
# ls | xargs rm

This pipes the output of ls to xargs which constructs separate rm 
statements for each line produced by ls.


On Nov 21, 2003, at 8:52 AM, Jason Bayer wrote:

> Marc:
>
> I have that problem as well... I have to go into that folder about 
> once a week and manually delete the message in that directory.  I've 
> never read a definitive reason as to why it occurs.  Does anyone 
> else know what's going on there?  I'm still running v717.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jason Bayer
> Architechnology, Inc.
> www.architechnology.com
>
> On Thursday, November 20, 2003, at 07:02  PM, Elton Darby wrote:
>
> > > How do you deal with all the messages in /var/spool/post.office/messages?
> >
> > I never have any message in that folder.
> >
> > From what I understand you should not either, because its the mail 
> > delivered to Post.Office, but not yet delivered to the individual 
> > user's mailboxes -- and if that's not happening promptly, something 
> > may be wrong.
> >
> > Granted, I "return mail" that is addressed to unknown users -- 
> > guess if you were not doing this you would have some mail 
> > accumulate in that folder.
> >
> >
> > Elton
> >
> > On Nov 20, 2003, at 5:52 PM, Marc Kaiwi wrote:
> >
> > > Elton,
> > >
> > > How do you deal with all the messages in /var/spool/post.office/messages?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Thursday, November 20, 2003, at 03:41  PM, Elton Darby wrote:
> > >
> > > > > How did you collect the stats on the filters?
> > > >
> > > > I just totaled up my OSX_mail_client's junk folders and deleted 
> > > > folders, since each was directed to it own mailbox; ie: 
> > > > spamcop@xxxxxxxxxxxx, spamass@xxxxxxxxxxxx, etc.
> > > >
> > > > OSX_mail_client generally catches 99.98% and puts in the Junk 
> > > > section; thus I can review and/or search the full text if I want. 
> > > > I have it set to keep the junk for a week -- the Junk section 
> > > > maintains aprox. 30,000 SPAMs for a moving week.
> > > >
> > > > I'm not sure if SA will "auto learn" out-of-the-box, but its 
> > > > doing a great job for me sitting behind the RBL's -- I disabled 
> > > > all of my blocking (John's list) to let it "work" and all has 
> > > > been excellent with zero false positives.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Elton
> > >
> > > Signed: Marc Kaiwi
> > >
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