Error in mailscanner with ID's duplicated

[Julian Field]

Scott Silva wrote:
> on 10/3/2007 6:08 AM Dario Hernan spake the following:
>> Hi, I see a full progression of the mail at the log.
>> I hope that two mailscanner's child take the same mail to process, and
>> when the first one end his job, move the mail to another folder and
>> the second one doesn't found it.
>> Is that possible?? there is a solution for that?
>>
> I don't think MailScanner should be doing that unless your locktype is 
> somehow wrong. I suppose it is possible with high mail volume and many 
> children to have two processes hit the same message a few times a day, 
> but Julian would be a better judge of that possibility.
>
No, that most definitely shouldn't happen. The file locking should take 
care of that. Only 1 child can have a message at once, and only then 
when the MTA has finished writing it. Something is wrong in your file 
locking.

Jules

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