Multiple mailscanners

[Julian Field]

At 21:06 03/07/2002, you wrote:
>Would it be possible to have one machine running 2 or even more
>instances of Mailscanner?  They could have separate incoming and
>outgoing queues.

They will need different "Incoming Work Dir" dirs as well.

>I thought of this because I was thinking how I could offload the
>scanning of mail away from the actual mail servers.  Say if I have a
>SAN, where 2 mail servers were dumping mail in two "queue.in"s,
>Mailscanner scans them and dumps them in the outgoing queues for
>delivery by the respective mail servers?

Beware that sendmail's file locking does not work over NFS...
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