slightly OT Sendmail question

[Jim Levie]

On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 12:23, Thomas DuVally wrote:
> Hi All,
>         I have a silly question concerning sendmail.  I'm using mailscanner,
> but that's not really an issue in this instance.
>
> Lets say, hypothetically, someone set the sendmail to run like this:
>
> /usr/lib/sendmail -q15s
>
> So that the queue would be hit every 15 seconds, and the server was
> pretty high volume.  University level, hypothetically.
>
> Would that cause mail delay? Or no effect? Or something else.
>
My thinking is that every 15 seconds is probably excessive for general
processing of a mail queue. What I do on a high volume server is to
invoke sendmail once a minute to process only local mail (by
domainname). What's left in the queue (non-local mail) is tried every 15
minutes. And using re-mqueue from the sendmail distribution I move
messages to other queues that run less often as messages that can't be
immediately delivered age. The crontab looks a mess, but it optimizes
mail delivery.
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