Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 07:23:11 +1300 From: "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org> To: Vivek Khera <khera@kciLink.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: processing incoming mail messages (FreshPorts 2) Message-ID: <200012181822.HAA18724@ducky.nz.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <14910.20578.512135.887887@onceler.kciLink.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012181119070.71411-100000@mothra.ecs.csus.edu>
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On 18 Dec 2000, at 12:58, Vivek Khera wrote: > >>>>> "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. Thanks. Offline, someone also suggested exim, which contains a perl interpreter. But I would rather develop an MTA independent solution. -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary - http://www.freebsddiary.org/ NZ ADSL - http://www.unixathome.org/adsl/ NZ Broadband - http://www.unixathome.org/broadband/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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