HowTo improve mailscanner under load

[Mohamed M. Abbas]

Hello All,

We've just put mailscanner (after some testing) into a production system
for about 2 days, and it does not seem to keep the pace with incoming
email's. The mqueue.in directory would have about 1200 messages and
would be like that for a while, and messages take a long time to be
scanned and moved to the mqueue directory for delivery. Just for
reference, we have about 70,000 messages coming through our box daily.

I've configured mailscanner with the following settings:

Deliver In Background = yes
Delivery Method = queue
Max Unsafe Messages Per Scan = 50

Is there anything else that I can do to make mailscanner process
faster???

Thanks in advance...

Mohamed M. Abbas
mmabbas at longwood.lwc.edu
System Administrator
Longwood College