OT sendmail question/MS performance

[Sylvain Phaneuf]

Hi,

Since I upgraded MS to 4.28.6 from 4.24-5, the message delay time has
increased quite badly, even if I have the following in MailScanner.conf

Deliver In Background = yes
Delivery Method = batch

In fact, Sendmail is still sending messages in queue mode in spite of
the switch in the MailScanner.conf file, i.e. waiting every minute
before sending messages. Could someone tell me if I need to change the
way sendmail starts (sendmail.cf) ?

At the moment I have

    daemon /usr/sbin/sendmail -bd -ODeliveryMode=queueonly
-OQueueDirectory=/var/spool/mqueue.in
    daemon /usr/sbin/sendmail -q1m

Would "daemon /usr/sbin/sendmail" be valid?  Or should I try something
like "daemon /usr/sbin/sendmail -q10s" ?

Other info:
RH 8.0
SA 2.60
sendmail 8.12.9
sophos 3.79
CPU 1.4 GHz
1 GB RAM


Sylvain

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