> > The biggest performance boost is the define(QUEUE_DIR,`/var/spool/mqueue/q*') > > statment. This let's sendmail look into /var/spool/mqueue for all directories > > (and only directories) that start with a lower case 'q'. > > > > Being an old admin, I stretched my imagination and just created 10 directories > > like this: > > > > # cd /var/spool/mqueue > > # mkdir q0 q1 q2 q3 q4 q5 q6 q7 q8 q9 > > # chown root.mail q0 q1 q2 q3 q4 q5 q6 q7 q8 q9 > > # chmod 755 q0 q1 q2 q3 q4 q5 q6 q7 q8 q9 > > > > Restart sendmail and you got 10 queues ready for parallel processing. The mailq > > program will verify this for you. > > > > # mailq > > /var/spool/mqueue/q1 is empty > > /var/spool/mqueue/q2 is empty > > /var/spool/mqueue/q3 is empty > > /var/spool/mqueue/q4 is empty > > /var/spool/mqueue/q5 is empty > > /var/spool/mqueue/q6 is empty > > /var/spool/mqueue/q7 is empty > > /var/spool/mqueue/q8 is empty > > /var/spool/mqueue/q9 is empty > > /var/spool/mqueue/q0 is empty > > Total Requests: 0 > Hey folks. I am attempting to implement a multi-queue environment for sendmail to work on but i am noticing something strange and i don't know that I should be worried about it or not... I made my directories (q0...q9) and reconfig sendmail and delivery is working just fine. When i go to the mqueue directory however i see this: drwxr-xr-x 2 root mail 4096 Dec 20 11:18 q0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root mail 4096 Dec 20 11:43 q1 drwxr-xr-x 2 root mail 4096 Dec 20 11:43 q2 drwxr-xr-x 2 root mail 4096 Dec 20 10:24 q3 drwxr-xr-x 2 root mail 4096 Dec 20 10:24 q4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root mail 4096 Dec 20 11:39 q5 drwxr-xr-x 2 root mail 4096 Dec 20 11:39 q6 drwxr-xr-x 2 root mail 4096 Dec 20 10:24 q7 drwxr-xr-x 2 root mail 4096 Dec 20 10:24 q8 drwxr-xr-x 2 root mail 4096 Dec 20 11:32 q9 -rw------- 1 root root 2244 Dec 20 11:24 qfeBFKiCW02287 that last one is a mail message. Should i be worried about this or will it still get delivered properly? I have taken other message like this and moved them into a q directory but they keep appearing... What are the sendmail switches to get it to retry delivery on all queued messages again? ____________________________ Mike Neuharth ADCS Technology Specialist http://www.umn.edu/adcs E-Mail : mjn at umn.edu Page Mail : 6126486512 at page.metrocall.com http://nifty.dsl.visi.com/ ____________________________