okay, probably a dumb question, i excel at those!
i'm quarantining on average 1,000 messages per hour. no, this isn't
'stock' qmail-scanner, it's qmail-scanner-st, so most of what i'm
quarantining is spam. without regard to the arguments for and against
quarantining spam, i can say that for *me* and my customers, it works
great. false positives are vanishingly low, the amount of crap kept
out of our mailboxes high.
however, from this high rate of quarantining comes an unpleasant side
effect - a gigantic quarantine. i clean out the quarantine using a
rolling one day find - every hour it goes through and deletes
everything 24 hours old. i like to keep one day as a bare minimum -
if something were to be quarantined inappropriately, it's good to be
able to yank it out.
the problem is that having 24,000 messages in a single dir taxes the
filesystem, a not uncommon issue.
so, my dumbass question: is there any way - either a hook, or as a
new feature - that qmail-scanner could use hash dirs within the
quarantine to break it down? 0-9,a-f, something like that? doing that
would allow me to increase the quarantine time a fair bit longer
without FS issues.
i suppose it's probably a non-trivial modification. but i figured i'd
toss the question out there.
Paul Theodoropoulos
http://www.anastrophe.com
http://www.smileglobal.com
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