Problems with split recipients

[Glenn Steen]

On 06/12/06, DAve <dave.list at pixelhammer.com> wrote:
> 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.

Ok. Someone who is current with sendmail will have to help you there:-).

> Right now I'm dealing with an outbound slow queue after an upgrade to
> 8.13.x, it never ends does it?
No it doesn't... Which is fortunate, considering one is kind of in
need of that monthly paycheck:-).

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