Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 11:32:00 -0700
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On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 02:17:37PM -0700, Tim Hunter wrote:
> This doesn't even make sense, are you looking to configure a different time
> period for different users?
>
> This isn't even possible, or neccessary.
Hmm. I think this'd be a pretty useful feature actually.
If I send an email to mother saying "I'll be home for lunch" I'd like to tell my
MTA to drop/bounce the mail after that event has occurred. Likewise I'm sure that
e-letter establishments have different cutoff times for when a mailout should be
dropped - especially for very time-sensitive info.
I can't see much harm in being able to define the queuelifetime on an individual
submission - perhaps limited to between 0 and some multiple of
control/queuelifetime.
Setting queuelifetime isn't the same thing as controlling the backoff
algorithm. I personally agree that setting queuelifetime is useful.
I wrote up a patch to do that a while back:
http://www.ornl.gov/its/archives/mailing-lists/qmail/2000/05/msg00140.html
Ian
