antivirus in smtp, good or bad?

Tue Feb 3 14:49:25 UTC 2004

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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