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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>
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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.

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