HowTo improve mailscanner under load

[Kelly Hamlin]

What virus scanner are you using, and also, do you enable spamassassin?


Try disabling Spam Checks and then restart mailscanner, see how well it goes
from there..

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mohamed M. Abbas" <mmabbas at LONGWOOD.LWC.EDU>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 1:55 PM
Subject: HowTo improve mailscanner under load


> 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
>