Split queues

[Julian Field]

Jeff A. Earickson wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Julian Field wrote:
>
>> Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 19:25:57 +0000
>> From: Julian Field <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk>
>> Reply-To: MailScanner Beta-testers 
>> <mailscanner-beta at lists.mailscanner.info>
>> To: MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>,
>>     MailScanner beta testers <mailscanner-beta at lists.mailscanner.info>
>> Subject: Re: Split queues
>>
>> Okay, I've changed my mind.
>>
>> I have put in the split queue support for kicking MTA's to tell them 
>> about messages that need delivering in all queues.
>>
>> *Please* test this stuff in:
>>   Sendmail
>>   Exim
>>   Postfix
>>
>> Without sufficient testing, I will withdraw it again.
>>
>> Thanks folks.
>>
>> Julian Field wrote:
>>> The latest beta should work, as far as it goes.
>>> However, messages put in queues other than the default one won't be 
>>> "kicked" at the MTA. They will wait until the MTA next does a round 
>>> of that non-default queue.
>
> Julian,
>
> I'm installing and looking at 4.58.7 right now, but Whoa.... I confess 
> that I didn't pay as much attention to this thread as I should have.
> I run split outbound queues, ie:
>
> Outgoing Queue Dir = %localrules-dir%/outqueue.rules
>
> where the ruleset looks like:
>
> To:     @colby.edu      /var/spool/mqueue/fastq
> FromOrTo:       default /var/spool/mqueue/slowq
>
> I want to keep the local stuff dis-entangled from outbound stuff that may
> not be resolving, to speed up local delivery.  I also run a cronjob every
> 5 minutes that moves the non-deliverables to a delayq to get it out of
> the way:
>
> #!/usr/bin/ksh
> #
> # Move messages with more than 3 retransmission attempts to slow queue
> #
> QTOOL=/usr/local/adm/qtool.pl
> FASTQUEUE=/var/spool/mqueue/fastq
> SLOWQUEUE=/var/spool/mqueue/slowq
> DELAYQUEUE=/var/spool/mqueue/delayq
> #
> #---anything in fast or slow queues with more than 3 attempts, go to 
> delayq
> #---stuff will sit in the delayq until either delivered or returned
> #---the delay queue has more generous sendmail timeout settings
> $QTOOL -e '$msg{num_delivery_attempts} > 1' $DELAYQUEUE $FASTQUEUE
> $QTOOL -e '$msg{num_delivery_attempts} > 3' $DELAYQUEUE $SLOWQUEUE
>
> So the idea of kicking my slowq or delayq sounds like it will defeat my
> plan.
>
> Is there a list archive for the beta list someplace that I can go look
> at?
>
> Jeff Earickson
> Colby College
Unfortunately it sounds like you want the opposite of what everyone else
appears to want. Take a look for the sub called KickMessage in the pm
corresponding to your MTA and you'll find the code. Pretty easy to
reverse engineer and change to what you want.

Jules

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