From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jun 5 14:15:50 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA07357 for chat-outgoing; Thu, 5 Jun 1997 14:15:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from main.statsci.com (main.statsci.com [206.63.206.110]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA07350 for ; Thu, 5 Jun 1997 14:15:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from plum.statsci.com [206.63.206.43] with smtp by main.statsci.com with smtp (/\oo/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.3 #3) id m0wZjsj-000ZMZC; Thu, 5 Jun 97 14:15 PDT Received: from plum.statsci.com [206.63.206.43] with smtp by plum.statsci.com with smtp (/\oo/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.3 #3) id m0wZjsj-0007QoC; Thu, 5 Jun 97 14:15 PDT Message-Id: To: David Nugent cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: uucp uid's References: <199706051647.CAA02615@labs.usn.blaze.net.au> In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 06 Jun 1997 02:47:07 +1000." <199706051647.CAA02615@labs.usn.blaze.net.au> Reply-to: scott@statsci.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <26728.865545340.1@plum.statsci.com> Date: Thu, 05 Jun 1997 14:15:41 -0700 From: Scott Blachowicz Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk David Nugent wrote: > We need a new protocol, imho. Not unlike smtp, or maybe even a > variation of smtp that is receiver driven. Seems you could add some commands to SMTP to say HELO and SEND me my mail? > Once nice feature of ZMailer which I (ab)used often was to split > recipients into different queues with different retry parameters. > Periodic callers with smtp would get redirected to a "slow" queue > and it wouldn't interfere with the rest of mail delivery. Nifty. You could do that with sendmail (or smail or whatever, too) - just route email to a "mailer" that just drops it in a different queue directory by waving sendmail over it again with command line switches to specify a different .cf file. Then you could cron-run the queue on that other sendmail queue on a different schedule. Seems like it ought to work (or I think I've seen others suggesting similar schemes in the past). Scott Blachowicz Ph: 206/283-8802x240 Mathsoft (Data Analysis Products Div) 1700 Westlake Ave N #500 scott@statsci.com Seattle, WA USA 98109 Scott.Blachowicz@seaslug.org