[Mailman-Developers] Outgoin queue sugestion

[The Dragon De Monsyne]

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On Sat, 26 Sep 1998, Scott wrote:

> I personally like the idea of locking the files more than I like the
> idea of a daemon delivering queued mail because there will always be
> the worry that something accidentally kills the daemon process while
> no admin is around.

	This is why I have the daemon check to see if an instance of 
itself is already running before starting. If it's already running it
dosen't start another copy of itself. That way you just run the daemon
program from cron periodicaly and it automatically restarts itself if it
gets killed. (I haven't had to worry about it since I  installed it a
month ago. ) 

	I'm including the daemon version of run_queue attatched to this
message. (to use it you just eliminate the delivery attempts
(i.e. any calls to OutgoingQueue.processQueue) elsewhere in
the mailman code (my own mods to  do this are a bit of a hack. If I have
time to fix them up to be presentable I'll post a diff)


	-The Dragon De Monsyne

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