On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 06:49:11PM -0800, Ellen Spertus wrote:
> I'm unable to figure out from the FAQ and man pages how much concurrency
> there is in local delivery when users have commands in their .qmail-*
> files. To be concrete, assume the following files are in ~ellen:
>
> .qmail-foo
> | foo
>
> .qmail-bar
> | bar
>
> My questions are:
>
> 1. If a message arrives for ellen-foo, qmail-local will begin running foo.
> If a second message to ellen-foo arrives while the first instance of foo is
> running, will two foo processes run at once?
If concurrencylocal is greater than one, then sure. There is no per-user
concurrency constraint that is additional to the system-wide ones.
> 2. Same question, but about messages sent to ellen-foo and
> ellen-bar. Could the foo and bar processes run concurrently?
Same answer.
> 3. Am I right to assume that mail to different users is completely
> independent; i.e., my having a slow process won't delay other users from
> having their messages processed?
Excepting if a single user consumes all concurrencylocal slots, then other
deliveries will have to wait until a slot comes free.
Regards.
