On Fri, Dec 10, 1999 at 12:48:20AM -0700, Andy Bradford wrote:
> Thus said "Ari Arantes Filho" on Thu, 09 Dec 1999 19:14:54 -0200:
>
> > Supose I'm supervising the qmail queue and see a message with (2
> > attachments of 2mb each for 5 different addresses). This message will
> > consume a lot of my link, so I want to send this message during the night.
> > How to do this?
> You could always write a simple cronjob that would suspend qmail-send
> until an hour that you deem proper for sending such large emails and
> then have another cronjob that reactivates it at the specified time.
> This might involve control/concurrencyremote by setting the value to 0
> and then HUP'ing qmail-send. I'm not qmail expert by any means but
> this might work.
qmail-send needs a real restart to reread concurrency info. There is a patch
that allows you to start/stop delivery without restarting qmail, it's somewhere
on www.qmail.org.
Greetz, Peter.
--
Peter van Dijk - student/sysadmin/ircoper/womanizer/pretending coder
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