Perhaps you should look into MailScanner and MailWatch. Mailscanner (package for Suse available) will handle the interaction with spamassassin and clamd (as well as other A/V solutions) and MailWatch provides a nice GUI for quarantine and archive. Once set they just work.
Rick Joe Acquisto-j4 wrote: >> On 2/24/21 6:26 AM, Joe Acquisto-j4 wrote: >>> For now I will settle on a cron job script that peeks at the hold >>> queue every so often and alerts someone (me) with an alert. >> >> *nod*nod* >> >> I have a daily cron job that runs a script which shows me: >> >> - Number of messages which are: >> - Normally queued messages for the MTA >> - Held (Postfix parlance) / Quarantined (Sendmail parlance) >> messages for the MTA >> - Normally queued messages for the MSA >> - Output of mailq for: >> - Held / Quarantined messages >> - Normally queued messages for the MSA >> >> I don't show the output for the normally queued messages for the MTA >> because that's a constant state of flux and working like it should. >> >> I mainly care to see held / quarantined messages and if something's >> wrong with the MSA queue. >> >>> I would have thought there was some mechanism already built in to >>> the milter, or postfix, to do that, optionally) but I've not >>> stumbled on one thus far. >> >> There is. The command is called "mailq". It's designed to print >> status >> to STDOUT and be consumed by a human. Many people have this output >> emailed to them or apply some sort of script logic to it. > > Thanks. Workable. > >> Note: This MTA administration is decidedly NOT the milter's job. >> The milter's job is to filter discrete messages and return a -1 / 0 >> / 1 >> status to the MTA. The MTA is what's responsible for managing >> /it's/ queue. > > Ah. Well I did not mean to suggest the milter should "manage" the > postfix queue > at all, but could alter any "directive" as to disposition. The log > messages I noticed, for "infected" mail (/var/log/mail) seem to > suggest postifix was dealing with these in a way "directed" by the > milter. > > Perhaps these are "distinctions without a difference" brought about > my own, limited familiarity with the tech and terms. > >> -- >> Grant. . . . >> unix || die > > > Thanks agian > > joe a. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > clamav-users mailing list > clamav-users@lists.clamav.net > https://lists.clamav.net/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users > > > Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: > https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq > > http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml _______________________________________________ clamav-users mailing list clamav-users@lists.clamav.net https://lists.clamav.net/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml
