Paulo Jan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Thu, 18 May 2000:
> 1) maildirsmtp gets executed. The server starts sending out the 30 Mb.
> or so of messages.
> 2) After 30 minutes, the queue hasn't been sent completely yet, but
> another instance of maildirsmtp is started, and begins sending messages
> from the queue again.
When I was using a similar setup, I had this code snippet as part of my
"pppdeliver" script that invoked maildirsmtp:
# Sanity check to avoid two copies running simultaneously
if [ -e $PIDFILE ]; then
# pppdeliver is already running
OTHERPID=`cat $PIDFILE`
logger -t pppdeliver -p mail.notice [$$] Already running at PID $OTHERPID
exit 1
else
echo $$ > $PIDFILE
fi
It's not secure etc. etc. but it worked. :-)
Also the script would of course rm $PIDFILE before exiting.
Anyway, any other sort of locking mechanism should work just as well I
imagine. Sorry, I don't know enough about maildirsmtp to answer your
other questions.
Regards,
Mikko
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