if he's demanding that you run the queue every 15 minutes, that would seem
to suggest that he's permanently connected, in which case i'm wondering why
the mail isn't delivered directly to his machine.
assuming that's not possible though, i'm pretty sure that if you're acting
as MX for him, your own qmail process should attempt to deliver mail
immediately after it's placed in the queue. if for some reason delivery
fails initially, qmail will retry according to its retry schedule.
or am i missing something here?
shag
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----- Original Message -----
From: Toni Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Fri 24 Sep 1999 7.01
Subject: ALRM and ongoing deliveries?
>
>
> Hello,
>
> the qmail-send page says that sending it an ALRM makes it re-scan the
> queue. Well, somebody demanded that his qmail-send gets ALRMed every
> 15 minutes to minimize mail delivery time. BUT: He has a slow link
> and queued some 20+ megs of mail at once, in pieces around 3-7 meg each.
> His mail got NOT delivered for over a day while the link was constantly
> glowing. When I stopped that cron job the mail was out in about an
> hour. The exact command this cronjob executes is
>
> /usr/local/bin/svc -a /var/qmail/run/qmail
>
> So what gives? Did I assume correctly that sending the ALRM interrupted
> the ongoing transfers and restarted them? The log file mentions
> "SMTP connection died" several times... If so, how do I have the
> queue run every 15 minutes w/o disturbing the deliveries already
> in progress? This is qmail-1.03 with daemontools-0.53 and
> ucspi-tcp-0.84.
>
> "Stay tuned for more tuning questions" :-|
>
> Thank you!
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Toni.
>
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