Measuring the time it takes to process one message or batch

[Julian Field]

On 05/05/2009 11:59, infernix wrote:
> Julian Field wrote:
>>> I'd like to be able to test this on the live setup just as 
>>> spamassassin can. As far as i can tell, MailScanner --lint only does 
>>> internal checking and does not actually support processing a message 
>>> or batch of messages.
>> Do "MailScanner --help" and you will find the "--debug" and 
>> "--debug-sa" switches, among others.
>
> I know about those, but:
>
> -lint: Test the configuration and report errors.
>
> -debug: Run MailScanner in debug-mode. In debug-mode MailScanner 
> doesn't spawn childrens and produce a lot of output. Can be compined 
> with -debug-sa.
>
> -debug-sa: Run the spamassassine module inside MailScanner in 
> debug-mode. Warning: This option doesn't stop MailScanner from 
> spawning children! Can be combined with -debug.
>
> These options will just spawn MailScanner as normal, possibly not 
> forked, but with much more output. This is not the equivalent of 
> 'spamassassin -D < spammail', because MailScanner in debug mode will 
> just load the MailScanner.conf that is used in production and start 
> processing the configured queue directory. There is also no option to 
> specify some alternative config.
Yes there is, just specify the config file on the command line. No 
switch needed for that.
> It's not possible to run it in debug mode while the live mailscanner 
> processes continue on as normal, nor is it possible to let it process 
> one mail (or batch) by pointing it to a file (or directory).
Yes it is, read the output of "MailScanner --help" before you say things 
like this :-)
>
> So my question still stands; is there a way to let MailScanner process 
> one (batch of) messages in debug mode *without* having it affect the 
> running (live) mailscanner process?
Yes, just run it with --debug. It will not affect the live MailScanner 
process at all. I do it all the time.

Jules

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