Problem with splitted messages

[Michael Baird]

Yes, please, I've got a maintenance window coming up this week as well,
I'd be happy to do any testing needed also. This is about the only real
problem I still have in dealing with spam (multi-recipient messages, and
improper rulesets applied).

Regards
MIKE

> Hi!
>
> > >>Nice call, I noticed the same behavior and had to back off splitting
> > >>messages with Sendmail before MailScanner had a chance to process them.
>
> > > Uhm i also do splitting, on a high volume server. I didnt see this. could
> > > it be due to a sendmail version? Just asking since i didnt encounter this.
>
> > I didn't see it either. :-)
> > When you ls -l in /var/spool/mqueue.in, do you see numbers > 1 in the
> > second column?
>
> I checked the inodes for the d* files are i see it also:
>
> [root at vmx10 mqueue.in]# ls -ial
> total 21972
> 1635259 -rw-------    6 root     root         1823 Mar 11 18:42
> dfi2BHfGOp017214
> 1635259 -rw-------    6 root     root         1823 Mar 11 18:42
> dfi2BHfGOr017214
> 1635259 -rw-------    6 root     root         1823 Mar 11 18:42
> dfi2BHfGOs017214
> 1635259 -rw-------    6 root     root         1823 Mar 11 18:42
> dfi2BHfGOu017214
> 1635259 -rw-------    6 root     root         1823 Mar 11 18:42
> dfi2BHfGOv017214
> 1635268 -rw-------    1 root     root          925 Mar 11 18:42
> qfi2BHfGOp017214
> 1635273 -rw-------    1 root     root          919 Mar 11 18:42
> qfi2BHfGOr017214
> 1635272 -rw-------    1 root     root          921 Mar 11 18:42
> qfi2BHfGOs017214
> 1635270 -rw-------    1 root     root          911 Mar 11 18:42
> qfi2BHfGOu017214
> 1635269 -rw-------    1 root     root          919 Mar 11 18:42
> qfi2BHfGOv017214
>
> They indeed share the same inodes.
>
> > Still, it's clearly a performance issue. Julian is looking into the
> > locking code in MS to see if the df files could use a shared lock, which
> > would eliminate the problem. Alternately, sendmail could probably be
> > made to write the df files AS files.
>
> If the shared locking will improve speeds with splitted messages that
> would be just great.
>
> Julian, any news yet on this? If you need a testbox for this just ring.
>
> Bye,
> Raymond.
>