clive at messagecare
Dec 16, 2004, 2:44 PM
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Re: Is there a way to control the delivery rate?
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Net Virtual Mailing Lists wrote:
>The delivery rate I need to ensure is something like "1 message every 3
>or 4 minutes", which is pretty easy for qmail to exceed.....
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It sounds to me like you would want to deliver the messages to a local
holding mailbox (instead of the real recipient), then have a cron job
pick the first message up from that mailbox, inject it to the real
recipient, and delete it from the mailbox. If the cron job runs every 4
minutes, you will have your controlled rate.
Of course, this will involve some scripting, but it should be a simple
enough shell script. At simplest, if you're using maildirs, something
like this should do it (you will need to work out the details):
to=user [at] domai
file=`ls | head -1`
qmail-inject $to < $file && rm $file
If you're not using maildirs, you might do something a little more
involved using something like fetchmail.
Clive
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