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Re: [cobalt-users] Mailscanner 4.25-14 on a Raq3

SW wrote:

I have the following for mqueue in sendmail.cf:

# queue directory
O QueueDirectory=/var/spool/mqueue

And in MailScanner.conf, I have the following:

Incoming Queue Dir = /var/spool/mqueue

What I'm a little confused about is why did I have to do this based on the
how-to at http://www.uk2raq.com/raqfaq/raqfaqshow.php?faq=96:

   cd /var/spool
   mv /var/spool/mqueue.in/ /home/spool/
   ln -s ../../home/spool/mqueue.in /var/spool/mqueue.in

And the how-to at mailscanner
http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/faq.shtml#17 states something
different:

mv /var/spool/mqueue/q*/* /var/spool/mqueue
rmdir /var/spool/mqueue/q*

So, which one is correct? Here is my mqueue and mqueue.in directories on my
Raq3:
AFAIK, The one on the MailScanner site is correct. It's newer than the one on uk2raq.com, which was written for MailScanner 3.
Basically, sendmail can improve performance by using multiple queue directories. MailScanner 3 did not support that. (MailScanner 4 could, but doesn't.) MailScanner's author, Julian Field, likes to remove the multiple queue directories when MailScanner is installed. 

Regards,

	Richard.