Increasing MailScanner performance

[Chris Waltham]

Hi Chris,

>sendmail -oQ/var/spool/mqueue.in -q -v
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>I have never done this in the mqueue.in dir tho, and I am not sure how well
>it would work.  I would obviously have mailscanner off when I did this.

Thanks! That works pretty well. Not your fault, it only works as well as
the machines it's trying to deliver mail to, can receive it. :D But yes,
I've got MailScanner off right now..


Chris


>Hope this helps?
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>Christopher S. Campbell
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>First Albany Corp
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>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
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>thanks guys,
>
>
>Chris
>
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>Chris Waltham
>Systems Administrator
>HarvestRoad, Limited.
>chris at harvestroad.com
>phone: (08) 9338-3000

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Chris Waltham
Systems Administrator
HarvestRoad, Limited.
chris at harvestroad.com
phone: (08) 9338-3000