Re: [vps-mail] Re: sendmail from the command line

[ADNET Ghislain <gadnet@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> I'm not certain, but is it possible that when you invoke sendmail with
> a queue-only option from the command line, it dutifully obeys (placing
> it in /var/spool/clientmqueue), then--not knowing any better--the
> submission daemon (sensing something queued in
> /var/spool/clientmqueue) dutifully reads the mail, opens an SMTP
> session with the MTA daemon on localhost:25, and ... (finally) the
> mail is sent?
>
>   
oh yes it should do that, i espect him to do that. With a MaxClient set
it will throttle the sending of email without any work from my side
apart setting the maxclient ! wonderfull for the lazy programmer no ?

> I'm not certain what (exactly) you need to do to have
> command-line-submitted e-mail queue for awhile ... but you see the
> issues. I suspect that--if you decide exactly where you want the mail
> to be queued--you will will be able to figure out a way to get it to
> queue there. (Another--easier--way might be to just have the e-mail
> generating script/program throttle its sending of e-mail.)
>
>   
yes, the whole point in my command line tests is to make sendmail do the
throttling and not me, so if i have the disk space needed to queue them
all (and in the darkness bind them) i think this is the laziest and most
efficient way of throttling it. I saw countless customer script die (php
most of them) because of the number on their mailing list reach a level
where timeout will come or vps process limits will stop them, so for me
i want to try another way.I think i will go for a check on the archive
as i just found that THIS list has one ! perhaps this was allready
discussed in the past as it's a recuring problem of administrator of
VPS. Lets see what the oracles of the past have to say about this !

Best regards,
Ghislain.
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