Re: Number of .qmail-qconfirm files

On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 11:33:51AM -0500, Charlie Brady wrote:
> 
> qconfirm's actions depend on creating (potentially) multitudes of
> ephemeral .qmail files in a user's home directory. Depending on the
> file system and OS in use, this can lead to performance issues
> whenever the home directory is searched - which is likely to be
> fairly often.

What I do is run the following script manually every couple of days, I
should probably put it in a cronjob:
  #!/bin/bash
  rootdir=/var/qmail/maildirs/userid
  pending=${rootdir}/.qconfirm/pending
  days=3
  find $pending -maxdepth 1 -atime +$days -exec unlink {} \;
  find $rootdir -maxdepth 1 -atime +$days \
    -name '.qmail-classified-qconfirm-*' -exec unlink {} \;
which deletes pending email addresses and .qmail-classified-qconfirm-*
files that are older than 3 days.

> This also precludes using qconfirm in a situation where the home
> directory is read-only.

Didn't you have to have write access to setup the initial .qmail
qconfirm script in the first place?

Chris