Quarantined messages (which in the default installation are only
messages with a potentially dangerous file attachment) are kept in the
quarantine directory (/var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine) for seven days.
To change the length of time quarantined message are saved, go to WHM > Plugins > ConfigServer MailScanner FE > MailControl, click the Menu button (top right), select MailControl Settings, and change the value for Keep x days of Quarantine entries.
The mailscanner MySQL database is also stored in the /var/ directory
(/var/lib/mysql/mailscanner). The size of the MailScanner/MailWatch
database is configured in the WHM front-end: WHM > Plugins > ConfigServer MailScanner FE > MailControl, >
Menu button (top right) > MailControl Settings > "Keep x days of MySQL database entries". It's set to 30 by default but you can reduce this to whatever
you want. A script
will run daily to delete any entries older than the number of days this
is set to.
If you want to empty out the entire database and start over, the
easiest way is to delete the entire database using the shell command:
mysql -e "drop database mailscanner"
and then run the script:
/usr/mscpanel/mailcontrol/dbadd.pl
to recreate the database.
