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[Julian Field]

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On 3/3/09 10:36, David Lee wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Julian Field wrote:
>
>> On 2/3/09 14:04, David Lee wrote:
>>> [...]
>>> Given that I was a chief requester, naturally I feel honour-bound to
>>> help test it.  Could you give an indication of your production-level
>>> confidence in the code?  How high up the inbound MX-priority-tree
>>> should I reasonably think of installing it at present?
>> Start it off at the bottom (highest number) and intentionally kill it
>> during a batch of messages. Do that twice and you should see
>> "MailScanner --processing" start to print something. That way it should
>> probably only be getting spam anyway, which will be an ideal test
>> environment for it.
>
> OK.  Installed on an MX high-value (low-priority) machine.
>
> Testing it with "MailScanner --debug" etc. took a little more than two 
> interrupts (perhaps successive "--debug" invocations were picking up 
> different emails) but it seems to be OK. "MailScanner --processing" is 
> showing some output for two or more attempts.  So looking good!  And 
> in the log file I'm seeing messages of the form "Making attempt 2 at 
> ..." which (in this controlled-test context) looks promising.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>> Cheers for the idea in the first place! (even though I did change it a
>> bit as I progressed... :)
>
> You're welcome.  The idea was simply a sketch of a possibility.  Your 
> change was to deliver a working product!  Many thanks.
>
> An observation:  "--processing" queries with "SELECT ... count>1".  So 
> on a busy, but well-working, server its output is always empty.  Could 
> there be a variant "count>0"?  Thus on this same server there would 
> generally be output, continually changing, reflecting (more or less) 
> the active part of the inbound MS queue.  Don't worry if you would 
> rather not.
No problem at all. Check out 4.75.6, which now supports 
"--processing=<number>" as well as "--processing". You want to use 
"--processing=0" to get the output from it that you want.

Jules

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