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Date:      Mon, 18 Dec 2000 12:58:58 -0500
From:      Vivek Khera <khera@kciLink.com>
To:        Joseph Scott <joseph@randomnetworks.com>
Cc:        Dan Langille <dan@langille.org>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: processing incoming mail messages (FreshPorts 2)
Message-ID:  <14910.20578.512135.887887@onceler.kciLink.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012181119070.71411-100000@mothra.ecs.csus.edu>
References:  <200012161822.HAA03654@ducky.nz.freebsd.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012181119070.71411-100000@mothra.ecs.csus.edu>

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>>>>> "JSF" == Joseph Scott <joseph@randomnetworks.com> writes:

JSF> 	If you don't want to process a message the instant it comes in
JSF> (via feeding it to a perl script or what ever) you'll need to setup some
JSF> sort of queue, then have a cron job come through and process the
JSF> queue.

Or, you could use a mailer system that does it for you.  You can
configure postfix to deliver at most N messages to a specific local
destination at once, the rest getting queued in the local mail spool.
If you set this limit to 1, you'd avoid the need for any additional
file locking as well.


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