Problems with split recipients

[DAve]

Glenn Steen wrote:
> On 05/12/06, DAve <dave.list at pixelhammer.com> wrote:
> (snip)
>>
>> All that was done, we have always run a split queue on our MailScanner
>> servers.
>>
>> I have stopped the errors by making changes to my queues, as follows.
>>
>> added a new queue dir of /var/spool/mailq
>> added incoming queue at /var/spool/mailq/mqueue.in
>> added outgoing queue at /var/spool/mailq/mqueue
>>
>> adjusted my MailScanner.conf and start scripts accordingly.
>> added "define(`QUEUE_DIR','/var/spool/mailq')dnl to my incoming *.mc and
>> rebuilt my incoming *.cf file. Restarted Sendmail.
> 
> Stupid question from a non-sendmail user... Couldn't you have reached
> the same effect by "define(`QUEUE_DIR','/var/spool')dnl" ... ?
> Wouldn't that have saved you a whole lot of checking/typing? Or is
> there some other magic involved that I'm not thinking of?
> 

Quite possibly that would have worked. But since I found so little 
information on the error, and even less information on how queue groups 
actually work, I chose to play it safe and stuff everything into a new 
set of queue directories. It just took a few seconds per server.

It seems to have fixed my problem, if I could find an explanation as to 
why, I could write this up and add it to the Wiki.

Right now I'm dealing with an outbound slow queue after an upgrade to 
8.13.x, it never ends does it?

DAve

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