On Sunday, August 12 at 12:20 AM, quoth Aaron Goldblatt:
messages in queue: 665789
messages in queue but not yet preprocessed: 250985
Yikes!
Most of this is incoming spam from a catch-all that's been open for
many years. I know at some point I need to get around to closing it
(and this situation is exactly why), but for the moment I have a
different issue.
Honestly, no, closing it is the first issue. Your statement reads
something like this: "my boat is sinking; I have a hole in the boat
that is filling the cabin with water, and I know at some point I
should plug the hole, but for the moment I want to figure out how to
pump out the water first." The answer is: no, plug the hole first.
THEN pump out the water.
So my question is, is there a way to spam filter or recipient filter
this garbage and remove it from the queue? Even a curses-based mass
delete thing would be okay with me at this point. It seems to me
that most stuff available at qmail.org is based on filtering before
stuff hits the queue, which isn't the issue here. This stuff is
already in queue.
...curses based? HAH! You're pretty funny.
No, there is nothing so fancy available.
However, all is not lost, if you're willing to "stoop" to the level of
a shell script. First, turn off qmail (stop qmail-send AND
qmail-smtpd). Then:
find /var/qmail/queue/mess -type f -exec \
bash -c 'spamc -c $1 || qmHandle -d`basename $1`' {} \;
Of course, that requires qmHandle, but you get the idea.
The point of using `find`, of course, is to avoid potential filecount
limitations in shell scripts, otherwise, you could do this:
for F in /var/qmail/queue/mess/*/* ; do
spamc -c $F || qmHandle -d`basename $F`
done
~Kyle
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If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise
of fighting a foreign enemy.
-- James Madison
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