RE: [courier-users] Antivirus software and mail queue management

[Bowie B. <Bowie_Bailey@BUC.com>]

From: Binand Sethumadhavan [mailto:bi...@gm...]
> 
> Two separate questions, actually.
> 
> 1. What antivirus software are people using with Courier? Apart from
> clamav, that is. Any of the commercial ones any good?

I use ClamAV.  I investigated some others, but never tested any due to
compatibility and cost issues.  Besides, ClamAV is doing just as well,
if not better, than the Symantec software I have on the Windows
desktops.

> 2. Is this procedure OK to delete an email from the queue?
> 
> - locate the Cnnnn file for the email in msgs/*.
> - locate the Dnnnn file for the same message (same nnnn as above).
> - (I am guessing here) pick the last line from grep ^A in the C file,
> and extract tttttt from it. Obtain T = ttttt / 10000
> - locate the msgq/T/Cnnnn.ttttt file
> - delete the three files thus located.
> 
> Am I missing something? I have a LARGE queue filled with
> w32.sober.x@mm (as per Symantec), and I'd like to clean it up. I'll
> shut down courier before doing the above, of course. How do I corelate
> the Message-ID from the maillog and the files above?

Why not just do "cancelmsg MESSAGEID"?

I've got a script that can show you the message or the control file
given a messageid.  I can post it if you are interested.

Bowie