Problem with splitted messages

[Julian Field]

I will take a look. I don't use the queue groups stuff myself, so haven't
seen this behaviour on any of my systems. But, as you say, the exclusive
lock on qf should be enough to guarantee the desired behaviour, at which
point a shared lock on the df should be okay.

I'll have to check the code though, to ensure I always follow my own rules.
I try to write defensive code.

At 16:57 10/03/2004, you wrote:
>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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