persistent queue runner for sendmail

[Jeff A. Earickson]

The -qp option for queue runners only appeared in sendmail 8.12.

I got a ruleset written to split my outbound queues into fast
(local domain) and slow (everything else), changed my init.d
sendmail script to do:

/usr/lib/sendmail -qp -OQueueDirectory=/var/spool/mqueue/fastq
/usr/lib/sendmail -qp -OQueueDirectory=/var/spool/mqueue/slowq

for processing of my two queues, everything is working great.
Why didn't I split my queues earlier?  Doh!

Jeff Earickson
Colby College

On Thu, 9 Mar 2006, Julian Field wrote:

> Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 19:59:12 +0000
> From: Julian Field <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk>
> Reply-To: MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
> To: MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
> Subject: Re: persistent queue runner for sendmail
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> Persistent queue runners of the "sendmail -q15m" type were certainly in
> 8.9 and I suspect long before that.
>
> Jeff A. Earickson wrote:
>> I was looking at Edition 3 of the Bat Book and Edition 1 of the Bat
>> Cookbook.  Persistent queue runners came along in sendmail 8.12.
>> Most people on this list probably run 8.12 or 8.13, right?
>>
>> Jeff
>>
>> On Thu, 9 Mar 2006, Julian Field wrote:
>>
>>> Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 19:33:23 +0000
>>> From: Julian Field <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk>
>>> Reply-To: MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
>>> To: MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
>>> Subject: Re: persistent queue runner for sendmail
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>>> Jeff A. Earickson wrote:
>>>> Julian,
>>>>
>>>> Referring to:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/install/sendmail.shtml
>>>>
>>>> (which may be old), you have "sendmail -q15m" for the processing
>>>> of post-MS email.  Wouldn't it be better to use persistent queue
>>>> runner, "sendmail -qp" instead.  See the Bat Book, sect 6.1.1
>>>> and the O'Reilly sendmail cookbook, section 9.5.  I've just
>>>> made this change, comments please...
>>> But sendmail -q15m is a persistent queue-runner, is it not? I don't have
>>> the bat book to hand (which edition anyway?)
>>>
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