[67125] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: antivirus in smtp, good or bad?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Tue Feb 3 09:59:20 2004
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 20:19:25 +0530
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh@outblaze.com>
To: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@telecomplete.co.uk>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0402031430580.1968-100000@server2.tcw.telecomplete.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Stephen J. Wilcox [2/3/2004 8:13 PM] :
> Ok I just realised what I'm doing here, 550 is a permanent fail and at this
> point as I am holding the mail on my server I should decide to return it to the
> sender. This isnt actually whats filling my queue and actually the reason I have
> some of these with 550 codes in the queue log is because they are bounces which
> means we handle them differently to normal mails and dont immediately fail them.
>
> I'd mixed permanent and temporary, but thanks to rfc821 I've resolved my
> confusion!
To clean out all the frozen mail ...
exim -bpru|grep frozen|awk {'print $3'}|xargs exim -Mr
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