On 18 Dec 2000, at 12:58, Vivek Khera wrote:
> >>>>> "JSF" == Joseph Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> JSF> If you don't want to process a message the instant it comes in
> JSF> (via feeding it to a perl script or what ever) you'll need to setup some
> JSF> sort of queue, then have a cron job come through and process the
> JSF> queue.
>
> Or, you could use a mailer system that does it for you. You can
> configure postfix to deliver at most N messages to a specific local
> destination at once, the rest getting queued in the local mail spool.
> If you set this limit to 1, you'd avoid the need for any additional
> file locking as well.
Thanks. Offline, someone also suggested exim, which contains a perl
interpreter. But I would rather develop an MTA independent solution.
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