Confusing log entries

Stephe Campbell campbell at CNPAPERS.COM
Mon Jan 19 18:17:20 GMT 2004


As I said, it's Monday, and I never considered partial messages. Last week I
got hammered by one of those poor African letters, and after my incoming
queue hit 25000, it seemed like it was only processing 1 at a time. I didn't
look throughout the log, just happened to see this one. I knew better from
the past, I just wasn't thinking. I didn't understand what Mr. Dijkxhoom was
saying.

Mr. Field, the log message is perfectly fine.

Thanks all for the help and concern.

Steve Campbell
campbell at cnpapers.com
Charleston Newspapers


----- Original Message -----
From: "Julian Field" <mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 12:55 PM
Subject: Re: Confusing log entries


> The number listed as "waiting" includes all messages that are only partly
> delivered. If there are any messages waiting to be scanned (and have been
> fully delivered), then MailScanner will scan those available, even if it
is
> smaller than the batch size limit. As Raymond said, you don't want to wait
> until there are 100 fully delivered before doing anything.
>
> As only 1 was scanned this time around, that implies that the other
11-1=10
> messages are still being delivered and so are not yet ready for scanning.
>
> The message in the log isn't 100% clear, I agree, but I couldn't think of
> any better concise wording for it. And now I don't want to change it since
> people might be looking for it as part of some log analysis system they
> have written.
>
> At 17:30 19/01/2004, you wrote:
> >No, I don't want to wait for 100, but if I have 11 waiting, why just do
one?
> >Why not 11? As the subject line suggests, I'm confused.
> >
> >Steve Campbell
> >campbell at cnpapers.com
> >Charleston Newspapers
> >
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Raymond Dijkxhoorn" <raymond at PROLOCATION.NET>
> >To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> >Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 12:22 PM
> >Subject: Re: Confusing log entries
> >
> >
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > > Jan 19 11:45:14 kanawha MailScanner[14317]: New Batch: Found 11
messages
> > > > waiting
> > > > Jan 19 11:45:14 kanawha MailScanner[14317]: New Batch: Scanning 1
> >messages,
> > > > 1727 bytes
> > >
> > > > Am I really only scanning one messages at a time (as it seems)
> >sometimes?
> > > > Are all of the above entries proper?
> > >
> > > Yes, do you want to wait till you get 100 ? =)
> > >
> > > Bye,
> > > Raymond.
>
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