New Batch: Found xx mesages waiting

[Julian Field]

If you turn off your incoming sendmail process, it should gradually drop to
zero.
It's just a sign that at any time around 70 messages are simultaneously
being delivered into your mail server.
MailScanner can only scan messages which have been completely delivered,
which is why the "Scanning x messages" is less than "Found y messages waiting".

At 17:53 14/04/2004, you wrote:
>You know I get the same thing, it's always around 70ish too.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf
>Of Ronnie Regev
>Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 9:42 AM
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: New Batch: Found xx mesages waiting
>
>Hi,
>I have noticed when running
>tail -500 /var/log/maillog | grep MailScanner | less quite often i see the
>following
>
>New Batch: Found 72 messages waiting
>New Batch: Scanning 1 messages, 1682 bytes
>
>The number never seems to be lower than 70.
>can someone clarify what im seeing.
>
>thank you.
>
>ronnie

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