Re: Purging Old Messages

Matthew Tylee Atkinson <[email protected]> writes:

> Thanks very much for the replies; I'll try out your advice soon.  I now 
> remember about PENDING_CLEANUP_ODDS from the manual.
>
> I had assumed that if I didn't explicitly set either that or 
> PENDING_LIFETIME, the defaults would be used, but that doesn't seem to 
> have been the case, as I've not set them and my .tmda directory grows 
> and grows.  I checked the changelog for the latest release and didn't 
> see this mentioned as a fix; perhaps it is a bug (that if those 
> variables are not set, they're not acted on)?

You shouldn't need to set the variables explicitly; the defaults
should result in a pending queue that cleans up after itself.  Make
sure that the account that tmda-filter runs under has write
permissions to the pending queue directory.