Re: processing incoming mail messages (FreshPorts 2)

[Dan Langille]

On 18 Dec 2000, at 12:03, Joseph Scott wrote:

>       Let's say, at a minimum you want the queue to run every 30
> minutes.  However, if there are a large number of commits in the queue,
> you may want to be able ramp up to queue processing as quickly as every 5
> minutes.  If there's only two items in the queue though, there's really no
> reason to run it every 5 minutes.

I would rather process the queue as soon as a new message arrives.  
Rather than have a message sit there.  Hence, the "notification" of a 
waiting process: OI!  you got mail....

>       Just some thoughts.

appreciated.

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