Problem with splitted messages

[Francesco Rotondo]

Hi all,

I followed instructions found on this page
http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/serve/cache/169.html
to obtain real indivual user preferences splitting messages with multiple
recipients.
Everything works fine except that MailScanner looks unable to process more
than one splitted messages at time. Watching in the code I've found that the
problem is in the way sendmail splits messages: it creates a qf and a df
file for each splitted message in the queue but all the df files are hard
links of the same file, thus MailScanner can exclusive lock just one of them
at time. Does MailScanner really needs to exclusive lock df files or could a
shared lock be enough, given that the exclusive lock on the qf files should
already avoid multiple processing of the same message?

Thanks in advance.

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