Increasing MailScanner performance

[Glynn S. Condez]

Hi chris,

Thats what I have experienced before but when I tried to upgrade my version
to 3.32.1, wow it so fast.

--- Glynn ---


----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Waltham" <chris at HARVESTROAD.COM>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 1:52 PM
Subject: Increasing MailScanner performance


> Hi guys,
>
> I've got a Linux box (kernel 2.2.19) with dual P3-700s and 512MB of RAM.
> We're a small software company (with some web hosting & email stuff thrown
> in), around 40 or 50 souls working here. I've noticed that messages sent
> through MailScanner have started to take longer and longer to come
through,
> and some [l]users today have called up and whined to me about it.
>
> What can I do to improve my performance? If I go into /var/spool/mqueue.in
> I get this:
>
> root at xxx:/var/spool/mqueue.in# ls | wc -l
>      342
>
> I'm running MailScanner 3.20-4 and SpamAssassin 2.20 (I think!), and if it
> matters the POP3 daemon I'm using is cucipop. Loads on the machine are
> generally pretty low, around 0.05-0.10, though it's been as high as 0.40
> today. We're scanning the emails with Sophos 3.57. Oh, I should say we're
> using Sendmail too (8.11.2).
>
> Here are some lines from my MailScanner config, let me know if you want to
> see more:
>
> Delivery Method = batch
> Deliver In Background = yes
>
> Judging from this page
> (http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/faq.shtml) I should try
setting
> Delivery Method to "queue". Our DNS is fine, though. Any ideas?
>
> Here's how I'm starting my Sendmail:
>
>    echo "Starting sendmail daemon (/usr/sbin/sendmail -bd
> -ODeliveryMode=queueonly \ -OQueueDirectory=/var/spool/mqueue.in)..."
>    /usr/sbin/sendmail -bd -ODeliveryMode=queueonly
> -OQueueDirectory=/var/spool/mqueue.in
>    echo "Starting sendmail daemon (/usr/sbin/sendmail -bd -q5m)..."
>    /usr/sbin/sendmail -q5m
>
> thanks guys,
>
>
> Chris
>
> --
> Chris Waltham
> Systems Administrator
> HarvestRoad, Limited.
> chris at harvestroad.com
> phone: (08) 9338-3000
>