How to configure MailScanner with sendmail's expensive=true
option?
Julian Field
mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Tue Oct 5 17:50:02 IST 2004
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At 16:55 05/10/2004, you wrote:
> > Set "Delivery Method = queue" in MailScanner.conf and it won't make the
> > initial delivery attempt, but leave your system to deliver at a time of its
> > own choosing.
>
>But then even internal mail between users on the Linux box is queued... The
>way sendmail's expensive feature works is that internal mail is delivered
>instantly, while keeping external mail in the queue to be delivered when
>triggered.
>
>Any way to accomplish this?
Use a frequent queue-runner to deliver the "cheap" mail. You could even use
a ruleset to make the outgoing queue directory depend on the addresses in
the message. You run a frequent queue-runner on the "local mail" queue, and
don't run one on the "expensive" mail.
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