Problem with splitted messages

[Michael Baird]

Nice call, I noticed the same behavior and had to back off splitting
messages with Sendmail before MailScanner had a chance to process them.

Regards
MIKE

> 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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