Mailscanner and Exim with "split_spool_directory = true"

[Tony Finch]

Tony Finch <dot at DOTAT.AT> wrote:
>
>I haven't got around to investigating this properly, but I have a couple
>of thoughts on the matter. You ought to be able to have a split spool
>directory on the smtp listener by using a configuration like
>        Incoming Queue Dir = /var/spool/exim.in/input/*
>but there isn't much point in this because the incoming spool dir
>should always be small. split_spool is much more important for the
>outgoing Exim because it's doing all the retries, and because of its
>support for turning the option on and off with messages already in the
>spool, it may be possible to make MailScanner just leave the messages
>in /var/spool/exim/input and rely on Exim to move them into the correct
>subdirectory.

Unfortunately Exim doesn't move messages in the queue, and just relies
on the natural turnover of messages when turning split_spool_directory
on and off to do the work of getting all messages into the right place.
So although this setup works, it has no benefit.

Tony.
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