From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Dec 18 10:22:57 2000 From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 18 10:22:53 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from ducky.nz.freebsd.org (ns1.unixathome.org [203.79.82.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2508537B400; Mon, 18 Dec 2000 10:22:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from wocker (wocker.int.nz.freebsd.org [192.168.0.99]) by ducky.nz.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA18724; Tue, 19 Dec 2000 07:22:45 +1300 (NZDT) Message-Id: <200012181822.HAA18724@ducky.nz.freebsd.org> From: "Dan Langille" Organization: langille.org To: Vivek Khera Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 07:23:11 +1300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: processing incoming mail messages (FreshPorts 2) Reply-To: dan@langille.org Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Priority: normal In-reply-to: <14910.20578.512135.887887@onceler.kciLink.com> References: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 18 Dec 2000, at 12:58, Vivek Khera wrote: > >>>>> "JSF" == Joseph Scott 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-ports" in the body of the message