Improving speed in picking up messages from incoming queue

[Thierry Carrez]

Julian Field wrote:
> Are you running this on a test server to try it out, or on a busy
> production server?
>
> If on a test server, then what you are seeing is this:
>
> MailScanner checks the incoming mail spool for any new messages, and goes
> away and processes them. However, if there were no new messages when it
> checked, it sleeps for 30 seconds and then tries again. So if you have a
> very low traffic server it is possible you are seeing the 30 second delay.
> Once your server is busy enough that there are always new messages coming
> in while the previous ones are being processed, the delay will never happen
> and your message latency will drop to a second or two.

Thanks Julian,
It is a test server going into production today.
"Now go elsewhere, viruses and spam !"

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Thierry Carrez