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Re: Questions re Zmail
On Tue, 20 May 1997, Matti Aarnio wrote:
> Also yesterday here was a question about having knowledge about
> system load average, and IMO if the scheduler would need to check
> it every time it is about to fork() a new transport agent, it
> would soon be doing that generally very expensive operation
> over and over again... (On Linux it is cheap, but other systems
> are not so nice..) If the "TimeServer" would present the LoadAvg
> in its shared memory block, then it would be cheaper...
That is a good idea.
>> 2. Why does mailq need the -Q option when querying a scheduler running
>> with -Q? This is quirk. Make mailq discover what protocol is used by the
>> scheduler and act appropriately.
>
> Actually the 'mailq' can't. The output IS empty for the case
> of having nothing in the queue, but it LOOKS empty, when the -Q
> option is used at the scheduler.
Then make the output be some characteristic string. It would be nice if
mailq would display without the -Q option even if the scheduler
uses -Q.
> With VERY BIG lists it is better to use external program to split
> the number of recipients down to more manageable size pieces -- like
> 1000 - 1500 recipients each. Also preferrably sort them by the
> domains so that the message has more changes to be delivered to
> more than one recipient at the time over the SMTP connections...
>
> It would be nice if the list expander would use zmailer(3) library
> (and data format!) to do the message submissions, then it would
> work neatly, and with minimal process creation. ( = No 'sendmail'
> running at all..)
Maybe one could use the buildin script language to write a small
listserver?
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