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From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@kryten.Atinc.COM>
Subject: Re: moving some mail. 
To: Guy Helmer <ghelmer@alpha.dsu.edu>
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Guy,
	please send me a copy, i am not guaranteeing that we will use it 
but i am interested in seeing it.

	i think the problem is the length of time that it takes to 
process a message rather than the actual number of messages or the number 
of sendmail processes trying to deliver mail.   nearly are are in 'netio' 
wait channel.

jmb

On Wed, 25 Oct 1995, Guy Helmer wrote:

> I've got a Perl script written by Paul Pomes (at UIUC or CICnet) that 
> I believe solves this sort of problem nicely.
> 
> The script moves older messages from one queue directory to another, such
> as from /var/spool/mqueue to /var/spool/mqueue2; one infrequently runs
> "sendmail -oQ/var/spool/mqueue2 -q" from root's crontab for the second
> level queue, and likewise even more levels can be setup for less frequent
> intervals.  Keeping the main queue short seems to help sendmail out quite
> a bit. 
> 
> I haven't had to implement this yet on DSU's mail hub (some days I have
> been tempted!), but it wouldn't be hard to install.  I could forward the
> script to anyone who would like it. 
> 
> Guy Helmer, Dakota State University Computing Services - ghelmer@alpha.dsu.edu
> 
> 

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