[SA-exim] Delete old Spam Mails

[Greg Hill]

On Thu, 4 Jan 2007 Axel.Mueller at t-systems.com wrote:

> I've set in sa-exim.conf the setting
>
> SAmaxarchivebody: 20971520
>
> But my Mail"archive" is now about 30 MB. Is a cron job necessary to
> delete the old mails?


I think maybe there's a misunderstanding about the effect of this setting 
(it isn't described well in the sa-exim.conf comments).

After looking at the function int savemail(int readfd, char *filename, int 
SAmaxarchivebody) in 
http://marc.merlins.org/linux/exim/files/local_scan/local_scan.c_1.2, it 
appears that this setting limits size of each message -- in other words, 
only the first ~20 MB (in this case) of any message will be written.  It 
doesn't limit how many such messages will exist, and so it doesn't limit 
the total archive size on disk.

Yes, I think a cron job to delete old stuff would be appropriate.

Greg