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Date:      Mon, 5 Feb 2001 16:50:23 -0800
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Jos Backus <josb@cncdsl.com>
Cc:        Dan Phoenix <dphoenix@bravenet.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: qmail IO problems
Message-ID:  <20010205165023.L26076@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <20010205162938.A50388@lizzy.bugworks.com>; from josb@cncdsl.com on Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 04:29:38PM -0800
References:  <20010205135501.H26076@fw.wintelcom.net> <Pine.BSO.4.21.0102051409200.18264-100000@gandalf.bravenet.com> <20010205162938.A50388@lizzy.bugworks.com>

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* Jos Backus <josb@cncdsl.com> [010205 16:30] wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 02:11:38PM -0800, Dan Phoenix wrote:
> > their mail message is taken and piped to...sendmail -t
> > which is a symbolic link to /var/qmail/bin/sendmail -t
> 
> You can save an exec by piping directly into qmail-inject, which should have
> the same effect (qmail's sendmail execv's qmail-inject; it sounds like you
> don't need the compatibility interface).

You could also do some tricky stuff if qmail has a constant reading
scheme by using some sort of FIFO and a file that you fcntl lock
over.

You could have a simple perl script listening on the other end of
the perl script and dole out email to several persistant processes.

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org]
"I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk."


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