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Date:      Thu, 05 Jun 1997 14:15:41 -0700
From:      Scott Blachowicz <scott@plum.statsci.com>
To:        David Nugent <davidn@labs.usn.blaze.net.au>
Cc:        chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: uucp uid's 
Message-ID:  <m0wZjsj-0007QoC@plum.statsci.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 06 Jun 1997 02:47:07 %2B1000." <199706051647.CAA02615@labs.usn.blaze.net.au> 
References:  <199706051647.CAA02615@labs.usn.blaze.net.au> 

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David Nugent <davidn@labs.usn.blaze.net.au> wrote:

> We need a new protocol, imho. Not unlike smtp, or maybe even a
> variation of smtp that is receiver driven.

Seems you could add some commands to SMTP to say HELO and SEND me my mail?

> Once nice feature of ZMailer which I (ab)used often was to split
> recipients into different queues with different retry parameters.
> Periodic callers with smtp would get redirected to a "slow" queue
> and it wouldn't interfere with the rest of mail delivery. Nifty.

You could do that with sendmail (or smail or whatever, too) - just route email
to a "mailer" that just drops it in a different queue directory by waving
sendmail over it again with command line switches to specify a different .cf
file.  Then you could cron-run the queue on that other sendmail queue on a
different schedule.  Seems like it ought to work (or I think I've seen others
suggesting similar schemes in the past).

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