On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Michael Fischer v. Mollard wrote:
> I have the following sporadic but annoying problem:
> An address is (via /etc/aliases) expanded to a list of local users. Each
> local deliviery is done sequentialy via a pipe transport. If one of the
> pipe transports hangs for some obscure reason, it blocks the delivery to
> the other recipients until it is killed after the pipe tranports timeout.
>
> Is it possible make this non blocking, so that a hanging pipe delivery
> won't stop everybody from getting mail? Kind of parallel delivery?
No. Local deliveries are serialized. You can adjust the timeout,
however.
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