Mailscanner and Multiple output queues

[Joan Bryan]

On Wed, 2 Apr 2003 15:49:41 -0600 Mike Kercher <mike at CAMAROSS.NET>
wrote:

> Following up on this...do you still have to tell sendmail about the
> additional queues?
>

Yes. The following information is courtesy of David <Master at useme.net>

http://www.sendmail.org/~gshapiro/8.10.Training/mqueue.html (which is
very basic)

http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/doc8.12/cf/m4/queue_groups.html (is
your better bet along with the stated documentation bits).

>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf
> Of Julian Field
> Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 6:18 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Mailscanner and Multiple output queues
>
>
> At 11:51 21/03/2003, you wrote:
> >We are considering implementing mutliple output queues to try to
> >improve performance on our mailserver and I wonder if anyone could give
> >me an idea of a ruleset for this. Ideally we would like mailscanner to
> >write to one of a set of output queues, distributing mail roughly
> >evenly across these directories.
>
> Outgoing Queue Dir = /etc/MailScanner/rules/outgoing.queue.rules
>
> and then in that file:
> From:   /^[a-g]/                /var/spool/mqueue1
> From:   /^[h-m]/                /var/spool/mqueue2
> From:   /^[n-s]/                /var/spool/mqueue3
> From:   /^[t-z]/                /var/spool/mqueue4
> FromOrTo:       default         /var/spool/mqueue5
>
> This just splits into 5 queues based on the first letter of the sender's
> address. Hopefully that gives you enough of an idea of what you can do...
> --
> Julian Field
> www.MailScanner.info
> MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support

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Joan Bryan
joan.bryan at kcl.ac.uk