On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 05:05:21PM +0000, David L. Nicol wrote:
> I recall from an earlier discussion of a similar problem that a
> perceived consensus was reached that a good way to do this kind
> of thing is to patch qmail-remote so that if
> the message is too big to send, it appears as a temporary error
> without even attempting to connect.
> also the definition of "too big to send" is read in from the file
> system in such a way that it can be easily monitored, and easily
> manipulated by a cron job. Something like the (non)existence of
> /var/mail/control/okay-to-send-big.
> After the status changes, an ALRM signal is generated to reprocess
> all backed up mail (most of which is there due to being oversize,
> it is hoped) and that is that.
Thanks. Sounds interesting.
If anyone of you remember what to seach for then I shall search the
archives.
Perhaps I could search the body of text for qmail-remote ?
Jacob
