Classes of service using advanced queuing techniques.

[Julian Field]

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David Höhn wrote:

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> Errol Neal wrote:
> | Hi everyone. Been a long time since I posted to this list since I
> | switched jobs. Happy holidays and hope everyone is doing well.
> |
> | I've been looking into implementing a hierarchy of service levels for
> | mail delivery using the queuing capabilities of Sendmail and the
> | multiple outbound queue groups found in the custom functions of
> | MailScanner. What I'd like to do on the inbound side is to drop mail in
> | one of several queues based upon the recipient domain and other stuff.
> | This capability is already available to me through the use of the
> | extended queue groups. So, to realize my ambitions, I'd like
> | MailScanner to do the following:
> |
> | 1. Pick up mail dropped in multiple queues/*
> |
> | Since the dx and qx files will be split into separate directories, I
> | need to know if MailScanner can handle this. The directory structure
> | will be something like this
> |
> |                         /var/spool/mqueue
> |                                                 /highpriority
> |
> | /dx
> |
> | /qx
> |                                                 /lowpriority
> |
> | /dx
> |
> | /qx
> |
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> Just out of curiosity, where is the /xf ? Remeber to mount it in tmpfs.
> Make sure you Adjust the maxrunnersperqueue and maxchildren for the
> runners according to the queue priority. If you need any help, let me 
> know

I didn't mention the xf as MailScanner doesn't use it itself. But there 
does need to be an xf directory if you already have df and qf dirs.

-- 
Julian Field
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