Thomas Goirand schrieb am Mittwoch, den 10. Februar 2010: severity 569150 wishlist thanks
> > > > Thomas Goirand schrieb am Mittwoch, den 10. Februar 2010: > > > >> Package: amavisd-new > >> Version: 1:2.6.1.dfsg-1 > >> Severity: important > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> By default, Amavis jails all the virus or spams it finds in > >> /var/lib/amavis/virusmails. I'm fine with this, but the folder is never > >> cleaned. A cron job each weeks/months should be added to the package to > >> delete spams that are X days old (my suggestion: make it at least 15 > >> days, maybe 30). The issue could be a /var totally full (this happened > >> to some of my customer's servers), which is very annoying. > >> > >> Something like this in /etc/cron.weekly/amavisd-new would do: > >> > >> #!/bin/sh > >> > >> find /var/lib/amavis/virusmails/ -type f -mtime +30 -delete > >> > >> and would be very easy to add in the package. Best would be to add this in > >> both lenny-proposed-updates and sid if possible. > > Eh no sorry, this should be up to the administrator. > > NO! Debian should deliver software well installed and behaving > themselves correctly in the system. The administrator should only use software they configured correctly. I'm not able to detect with high magic how an administrator configured their amavis. *snip* > Thanks for your prompt reply and the time you take to maintain Amavis. > > I do not agree with the way you seem to see this. To me, this is a > severity "important", and this could even have been promoted to RC, as > filling up the /var can put in danger the full of the operating system. Administrators should configure there software every admin is free to change the quarantine defaults, paths and so on. I have several customers that never delete the queues, they even backup them. > Please realize that BY DEFAULT, amavis should behave itself and > shouldn't fill /var. Do NOT set something disabled by default please, do > the clean on all installation by default (with a flag to disable if you > like it, but I think a "do not be dumb" flag is useless... maybe a "how > many days" variable make more sense). Please keep in mind that there's > no sane administrator that would like to have /var filled with 3 years > of virus/spam history. My proposed solution is trivial to implement. And totally stupid, I won't ever delete mail of other people without asking them. Amavis is a complicated software and should used with care. Deleting mails is dangerous and I would never do this by default. Any BY DEFAULT amavis does not receive any mails, you put it into your mail setup - not the package. You have to take care about your quarantinequeue on your own, I can't say if there is a false positive. Thats your task. > I've set back the severity to important. Please do not drop start a war > and drop it to wishlist, thanks. I completly disagree here and I will set it back to wishlist as it is. you are free to override my decicision via the ctte. Alex -- Alexander Wirt, formo...@formorer.de CC99 2DDD D39E 75B0 B0AA B25C D35B BC99 BC7D 020A -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
