Feature Request

[Julian Field]

The new version leaves the orphaned files there, but will ignore any
message which doesn't have a qf file.

At 15:04 13/09/2002, you wrote:
>Mqueue.in cleanup... Every now and then I find that performance starts
>to lag and when I check into things, I find orphaned df files in
>mqueue.in.  Typically these are large files, like today there was 3meg
>and 9.9meg I think mailscanner will still try processing these files at
>every run even though they don't have an associated qf file.  If you
>just run virus scanning you may not notice it, but if using the
>SpamChecks, you'll see the slow down in the form of mqueue.in backing
>up.
>
>Yeh it might be good to figure out the cause of them but they are so far
>and few between that it's not worth it.  My guess is that maybe the df
>is locked by sendmail because it's still receiving and mailscanner just
>picks up the qf and sends it on.
>
>So the request is to have mailscanner delete the orphans if it happens
>upon one.
>
>-=B

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Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
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