multiple mailscanner instances?

[Julian Field]

On Fri, 13 Sep 2002, Eric H wrote:
> OK, if I'm understanding the process correctly then one instance of
> sendmail listens and deposits mail in /var/spool/mqueue.in/ then
> mailscanner picks it up and scans it and deposits it in
> /var/spool/mqueue/ and then the other instance of sendmail picks it
> up and transfers it or hands it to procmail for delivery.
>
> So, would it not be possible to run multiple instances of mailscanner
> in order to increase the rate at which mail is picked up from
> /var/spool/mqueue.in? Would they step on each other? Would there
> be a performance benefit? Seems to me that on a dual processor machine
> it would.

This is all in the new version, due out some time soon...
As written at the moment (in version 3) they will stomp all over each
other, so don't be tempted to try it :-)

> What's the /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/ directory for?

It's where it unpacks all the attachments so the virus scanners can do
their work.

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Jules
jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk