Outgoing Queue Dir

[William Burns]

Chuck Foster wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I think I need some clarification over what the "Outgoing Queue Dir"
>directive does, as the tests I've just done have confused me a bit.
>
>Is this meant to be a sendmail queue directory, or should it be something
>else? I've always assumed the former, but I might have misunderstood the
>comment in the configuration file.
>
>

Chuck:

Here's another re-posted bit...
Still looking for the perfect feature for you.

-Bill

>Hi Bill,
>
>We've done multiple outbound queues, but not inbound.
>It worked wonderfully. It gave us the ability to offset
>bottleneck loads to our M$ Exchange servers (that also run our A/V).
>We held up the mail in the spam queues and delivered the non-spam
>mail right through during difficult times.
>
>We received some help from Julian when we did this.
>Here is what we did for multiple outbound queues.
>
>In /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf
>change the "Outgoing Queue Dir" setting to a custom function
>that get's placed in CustomConfig.pm.
>
>   Outgoing Queue Dir = &MyQueueDir
>
>
>Then in /usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/CustomConfig.pm
>add the following functions:
>
>   sub InitMyQueueDir {
>           MailScanner::Log::InfoLog("Initialising Custom Queue
>Directories");
>   }
>
>   sub MyQueueDir {
>            my($message) = @_;
>
>            return '/var/spool/mqueue' unless $message; # catch-all if
>message is duff
>            return '/var/spool/mqueue.highspam' if $message->{ishigh};
>            return '/var/spool/mqueue.spam' if $message->{isspam};
>            return '/var/spool/mqueue';
>   }
>
>   sub EndMyQueueDir {
>            MailScanner::Log::InfoLog("Ending Custom Queue Directories");
>   }
>
>
>Now you need queue runners that get started up....
>in /etc/init.d/MailScanner inside the "StartOutSendmail()" function
>add the following lines to the "elif...MTA = sendmail" section.
>
>        $SENDMAIL -q1m -OPidFile=$OUTPID1 -L sm-spam
>-OQueueDirectory=/var/spool/mqueue.spam
>        $SENDMAIL -q5m -OPidFile=$OUTPID2 -L sm-highspam
>-OQueueDirectory=/var/spool/mqueue.highspam
>
>
>
>Set your queue times to your appropriate needs.
>
>This system worked great for us.
>I would imagine you should be able to the something similar for the inbound
>by
>modifying the "StartInSendmail" and writing a custom function.
>
>I hope this helps you out.
>Let me know how it works out for you.
>
>-k
>

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