Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 11:11:34 -0800 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> Cc: Vivek Khera <khera@kciLink.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: processing incoming mail messages (FreshPorts 2) Message-ID: <20001218111134.C71210@tao.thought.org> In-Reply-To: <200012181822.HAA18724@ducky.nz.freebsd.org>; from dan@langille.org on Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 07:23:11AM %2B1300 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012181119070.71411-100000@mothra.ecs.csus.edu> <14910.20578.512135.887887@onceler.kciLink.com> <200012181822.HAA18724@ducky.nz.freebsd.org>
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On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 07:23:11AM +1300, Dan Langille wrote: > 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. > Hi Dan, elm used to have a program /usr/local/bin/filter that did what you want to do, I think. There were concise examples in the elm documentation and it worked well if the load wasn't extremely heavy. I used the filter binary for years; the bad news is that this binary seems to be missing from elm-2.5. No such feature in mutt.... gary -- Gary D. Kline kline@tao.thought.org Public service Unix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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