multiple mailscanner instances?

[Eric H]

On Fri, 13 Sep 2002, Jim Levie wrote:

> Yes, it is possible to run more than one instance of MailScanner, but
> it's a little more complicated. What needs to happen in that case is
> that Sendmail is configured to drop inbound mail into mqueue.in. Then
> you need something else that picks up qf/df pairs from the input queue
> and distributes those to two or more MailScanner work queues. Each of

But that would cost another disk read/write. How exactly is MailScanner
picking up qf/df pairs from the input queue that it can't cooperate
with another instance?

It seems to me that I can run sendmail -v -q several times and they don't
walk on each other.

Eric