> Simply put, what exactly is the purpose of subdirectories in > /var/amavis, mainly in the form like > '/var/amavis/amavis-20050930T192802-19231'? It appears to be > the location where amavis temporarily stores emails (raw, and > separated into > parts) for processing. What is the average duration for > these sub-directories?
You've got it - these are temp directories used to unpack the MIME encoded messages for virus/spam scanning. Amavis will remove these, unless an error is encountered, in which case, its up to you. It appears there is an error occurring, as is also suggesting by the messages reappearing (as you mention below). > The reason: someone thought it'd be a brilliant idea to put a > series of emails with images through email. We're talking > 63M file attachments to > -each- mail, and enough of these emails to total up to around > 2.9 -GIG-. That's funny! :-) Seriously, put the clamps on how large an email you will accept in Postfix. > > Only... the majority of these emails (sent Mon. and Tues., > wiped end of the working day on Tues.) started showing up > again on Wed. o.o; Same emails, same dates for the bodies > as evidenced in email.txt files, showing up aprox. every 30 > min. So I wiped these sub-dirs again earlier today (Thurs.). > In the past few hours, they've been coming back AGAIN. @.@ > You can keep deleting the newly created temp directories all you want, but until you remove them from the postfix queue, they will continue to be resent. Do a mailq to see what files you have in the mailq. Postfix will resubmit the messages until it receives an okie-dokey message from amavis (i.e. amavis successfully re-queues the message to postfix). -Mike ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _______________________________________________ AMaViS-user mailing list AMaViS-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amavis-user AMaViS-FAQ:http://www.amavis.org/amavis-faq.php3 AMaViS-HowTos:http://www.amavis.org/howto/
