Re: [cpx] Spam Box Plan

["Norman R. Prevett" <norm@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

Ditto that! Ditto ditto ditto!

There was a recent discussion here with a solution (I've attached it 
below) but having it available with CPX would be a great work saver:

Relevant Info Starts Here ------------------------------------

Subject:
[vps2] automatically pruning spam and quarantine mbox folders
From:
AlpineWeb <news.list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:
Tue, 10 Jan 2006 17:16:16 -0500
To:
vps2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Hello Brian,

You need to specify the user that the system crontab is running under like this:

@daily root /usr/local/bin/archmbox -k -o 10 --totals \ /home/*/Mail/[Qq]uarantine /home/*/Mail/[Ss]pam /home/*/Mail/Junk

HTHs

Cheers,
Uwe Schneider


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Brian Haines wrote:

> Instead of crontab -e, I placed number 4 in these excellent directions in
> /etc/crontab, but it does not run that I can witness in my junk and
> quarantine files.
>
> Is the command different for /ect/crontab?
>
> Thanks Lang for this and thank you others for all of the great help here.
>
> Brian Haines
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-vps2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-vps2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Lang Zerner
> Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2005 3:33 PM
> To: vps2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [vps2] automatically pruning spam and quarantine mbox folders
>
> I just came across a utility in the poorts collection called archmbox, which can archive, delete, report, or copy messages from an mbox mail folder.  archmbox is a great way to keep tabs on the ever-growing quarantine and spam folders on my servers that run SpamAssassin and ClamAV.
> I now have archmbox running on all my servers in a nightly cron job that deletes spam or quarantine messages more than 10 days old.  Here's how easy it is to set up:
>
> 1) Become root:
> su
>
> 2) Install archmbox:
> cd /usr/ports/mail/archmbox
> make install
> make clean
>
> 3) Open your root crontab for editing:
> crontab -e
>
> 4) Add the following lines to your crontab:
> # Delete old messages from quarantine and spam folders
> @daily /usr/local/bin/archmbox -k -o 10 --totals \
> /home/*/Mail/[Qq]uarantine /home/*/Mail/[Ss]pam /home/*/Mail/Junk
>
> 5) Inform your users that spam and virus-laden mail will be automatically deleted after 10 days.
>
> If your users keep mail in a folder other than $HOME/Mail, change the file specifications to suit your installation.  To keep mail for more or fewer days, change the -o value to the number of days to keep.  See archmbox --help for more options.
>
> Be seeing you...
> --Lang



Chris Hess wrote:

> Spam folders filling up quota:
> Now that we're letting some clients admin their own e-mail accounts 
> and spam filtering using CPX,the problem of spam boxes filling up is 
> creating big maintenance issues. Users simply don't remember to, or 
> don't want to, clear out their spam boxes.
>
> Does anyone know of an option to automate the clearing out of spam 
> folders?
>
> Maybe a future CPX addition could be allowing the user or Domain Admin 
> to have user spam boxes cleared of spam automatically if messages are 
> more than 5 days old (maybe options for 3, 5 and 10 days old from a 
> drop down). This would help tremendously.

--

Norman R. Prevett

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