On Mon, 12 Jul 1999 09:39:10 +0100 (BST), you wrote:
>On Sun, 11 Jul 1999, Marc Haber wrote:
>> Can I selectively queue mail addressed to mh-lists while delivering
>> other mail at once?
>>
>> Can I queue mail that is destined to a pipe while doing normal
>> deliveries at once?
>
>There is no current way of doing either of those.
So I might be better of with ditching the pipe altogether, have mail
sorted into mailboxes by the exim filter and then (later, when the
machine is offline) initiate the mail2news run via formail.
How can I prevent exim from writing into the mailbox while formail is
running? Am I probably best off when I rename the mailbox before
starting formail? How can I make sure that exim has already learned to
write into the new file?
>> Can I have a queue runner process mail selectively (for example: "You,
>> new queue runner, are only to process remote mail, while you, queue
>> runner number two, are only to process local mail)?
>
>The -R option is something like this,
Yes, but -R won't rule out pipes from being processed during a normal
queue run.
>> BTW, I really feel that exim should have an option to stop certain
>> actions (like pipes) if system load is getting too high. I know that
>> there are some options to do so, but I did not find an option to stop
>> pipes if load is getting too high.
>
>The only option is to stop *all* deliveries. I am not sure whether
>stopping particular kinds of delivery is especially beneficial.
IMO, it would only be beneficial if there were more granularity to
control queue runs.
>I suppose a generic transport option could be added
>to defer any particular transport at high load.
I think this would be a generally good idea since there are a number
of transports that are not time-critical but can consume significant
amounts of CPU time (such as UUCP batching or BSMTP).
Greetings
Marc
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