Re: Need Help on Queuing with Qmail

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• Subject: Re: Need Help on Queuing with Qmail
• From: fdc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Frank D. Cringle)
• Date: Wed, 02 Jul 1997 22:32:32 +0200
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Richard Letts <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>On Wed, 2 Jul 1997, David Ramahefason wrote:
>
>> ... I tried to flush
>> the queue while they where connected, but it didn't work all
>> the time.... In fact it seems to work while restarting the mailer
>> which is not quite a cool solution :(
>
>a) deliver into a Maildir for each customer
>b) when the come on-line invoke serialmail to their machine.
>
>what you don't want to do in this instance is keep sending qmail-send
>-ALRM signals since it'll fail most of te time

Fail in the sense of "not do much good".  The customer's IP# will be
in the tcp timeout cache - see qmail-tcpto(8).  Restarting qmail-send
(after stopping it) clears the tcpto cache, but that's no way to run a
mailserver.  Use serialmail.

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