Re: [EXIM] Serializing local delivery to a procmail pipe

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Tabor J. Wells
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [EXIM] Serializing local delivery to a procmail pipe
On Fri, 18 Jun 1999, Tabor J. Wells wrote:

> I've got a server that sends out mailings to a list of several hundred
> thousand users every so often. They process bounces via procmail
> delivering them to a separate folder. The problem is that when they send
> out to the list, the volume of bounces is such that procmail thrashes on
> locking the folder because exim spawns a delivery process on each bounce
> message. So what I was wondering is if there is any way I can serialize
> the delivery for this address, or possibly the transport that is used.


I'm afraid not. If several messages arrive at once, it will run several
deliveries in parallel. You can, of course, do your own serialization by
making it run a script that locks something.

-- 
Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
ph10@???      Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.



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