Hmm, but qmail does get bogged down by deferrals from my experience. I
can't really see how it cannot, through just the fact that it has to log
future deferred attempts, etc.
If you have a very large amount of mail that's constantly getting new
messages for outgoing, those deferred messages when retried take up a
qmail-remote process that could be dedicated to an actual deliverable mail
instead of retrying something that was deferred and may get deferred again.
I'd like slow mail, deferred or whatever on a host that's dedicated to
retrying and not getting new mail. Even when new mail stops, qmail sits
there and tries to deliver deferred mail until queuelifetime is
exceeded. Why not have a host dedicated to those types of mails instead
of bogging down your main mail machine.
In my case it seems lke it would be useful. I'm delivering 1 - 2 million
messages a day and a large percentage of that gets deferred.
-jeremy
> Jeremy Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >I'm wondering if it's possible to setup a deferral host in qmail? If a
> >message gets deferred, then the mail goes to another machine in charge of
> >just retrying deferred messages instead of clogging up the main mailer
> >machine.
>
> No, not out of the box. But it's not necessayr, because qmail doesn't
> get bogged down by deferred messages.
>
> >Someone told me this is possible to do in sendmail.
>
> It is.
>
> >I haven't used sendmail in years so I don't know first hand, but it's
> >been my impression that qmail can do anything sendmail can do.
>
> Not really... But then, not everything sendmail does is worth doing.
>
> -Dave
>
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