[svlug] Fw: MICROSOFT ACQUIRES LINUX OPERATING SYSTEM

[Javilk]

> 
> On Sat, 14 Nov 1998, Javilk wrote:
> 
> >     Based upon mailings of several hundred notices and newsletters from my
> > machine, I do not believe that this is quite the way is sounds.  If it
> > were, I would be unable to run mailing lists from my Linux machine.   Item
> > on the queue are skipped when they don't respond quickly enough, and the
> > residuals are eventually either transferred, or returned as undeliverable.
> 
> One thing sendmail WILL  do is adjust the priority of a message lower
> after a failure. In other words, if a mail fails, it is made lower
> priority. It still must time out before this is done. Also, if sendmail

    Ah.  Now I understand.  And I also recalled that I have something that
runs sendmail -q periodically to help speed all the stuff out, as I did
see stuff build up in the spool.

> Any admin that has had to deal with large sites has had this problem and
> probably had to develop scripts to deal with it. Exim eliminates the need
> for this. It also gives you a GUI queue manager and several reporting
> scripts.

    That would get rather bad!  Why doesn't sendmail run multiples at
once?

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