On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 01:04:27PM -0600, Charles Cazabon allegedly wrote:
> Lukas Beeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 02:16:12AM +0800, Adrian Ho wrote:
> >
> > > I haven't seen what happens if qmail hangs around long
> > > enough to get a SIGKILL from shutdown -- anyone know what the worst-case
> > > scenario is?
> >
> > qmail doesn't hang around. that's DJB software *SCNR*
>
> Wrong. qmail most certainly _does_ hang around. qmail-send will not
> exit until all in-progress deliveries are completed or failed. With
> large messages to slow remote servers, this can be a significant amount
> of time.
>
> It's all in the qmail-send man page.
It's worse than that. What's not spelt out in the man page is that
qmail-send also updates the dtm stamp of all messages in the queue
prior to exiting. For a large queue, this can take a long, long
time. See the utime() in qmail-send.
Regards.
