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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Apparently this works by using...</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>/usr/lib/sendmail -bd -ODeliveryMode=queueonly -O"QueueDirectory=/var/spool/mqueue.in/q*" &</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>in the sendmail startup, following what the MailScanner install instructions specify.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>BUT, I get this message with MailScanner 4.05</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Queue directory /var/spool/mqueue.in cannot contain sub-directories, currently contains dir q1</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Does this only work with newer versions of MailScanner?</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>-----Original Message-----</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>From: Kevin Spicer [<A HREF="mailto:kevins@BMRB.CO.UK">mailto:kevins@BMRB.CO.UK</A>]</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2003 1:33 PM</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>To: MAILSCANNER@jiscmail.ac.uk</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Subject: Re: Performance suggestions?</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>> Multiple mqueue.in directories (I don't know how you configure</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Sendmail to</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>>deliver to multiple queue directories, but surely one of the</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>sendmailers out</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>>there can help)...</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>I dug this out...</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2><A HREF="http://www.sendmail.org/~gshapiro/8.10.Training/mqueue.html" TARGET="_blank">http://www.sendmail.org/~gshapiro/8.10.Training/mqueue.html</A></FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>its for 8.10 but I think still valid in 8.12. A couple of gotcha's</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Don't take the advice on that page about making some queue directories</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>symlinks to other partitions - MS won't like that and it will actually</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>increase the work your machine has to do, because of needing to copy the</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>data into the outgoing queue.Don't forget to make them subdirectories of</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>mqueue.in not mqueue! I'm not sure whether MS makes use of the xf</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>files, if not maybe worth taking the advice about symlinking that to</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>tmpfs.</FONT>
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