On Sat, Apr 04, 2009 at 07:01:08PM +0200, Robert Schetterer wrote:
> > Here's my suggestion:
> >
> > - Create a second Postfix instance in the same file-system.
> > - Run a cron job to move (rename(2)) messages from the HOLD queue
> > of the main instance into the deferred queue of the second instance,
> > carefully respecting the hash_depth of each directory.
> > - In the second instance, deliver all mail via a suitable daemonized
> > SMTP server or via pipe(8) script. The daemon or script will be
> > the entry point into a quarantine system that eventualy expires
> > unclaimed mail, generates reports and allows other administrative
> > or user actions as you see fit.
> >
> > This means that "FILTER transport:nexthop" is perhaps a better choice than
> > "HOLD", but milters may not be able to express this action...
> >
> > I am not aware of an open-source quarantine add-on for Postfix.
>
> Hi Victor, this sounds very complicated
Yes, I am proposing a robust, comprehensive system that could serve a
variety of needs.
> i was thinking more about a cron cript like this ( surly modified to the
> hold issue )
What do mail-daemon messages have to do with junk placed in the HOLD
queue by a milter
> TMPFILE=/tmp/clean.queue.$$
> DEFERDIR=/var/spool/postfix/deferred
>
> # collect the filenames
> mailq |grep MAILER-DAEMON | cut -f1 -d ' ' > $TMPFILE
>
> for DEFERFILE in `cat $TMPFILE`
> do
> FILEPATH=`find $DEFERDIR -name $DEFERFILE`
This is subject to race-conditions, because queue-ids can be re-used.
--
Viktor.
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