[Mailman-Users] How to configure mailman to only deliver mail a few times a day?

Laura Creighton lac at openend.se
Sat Feb 7 19:12:43 CET 2015


>> Anything obviously wrong with this idea?
>
>It doesn't seem that the 'mover' should be checking the age of things in
>queue 1. The idea is just to not send messages more than a few times a
>day, not to introduce extra delay.
>
>Also, it's easy to configure Mailman to use some smtp port other than 25
>for sending and thus send only to to the first sendmail and be the only
>thing that does so, but you may not want to delay all Mailman mail, e.g.
>an on demand password reminder or a held message notification. The mover
>needs to be smart. I think it should check queue1 frequently and if a
>queued message has a Mailman generated Message-ID: of the form
><mailman\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+\..+ at .+> move it right now, otherwise wait until
>x hours since the last "bulk move" at which time it moves everything and
>updates the last bulk move time.
>
>-- 
>Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net>        The highway is for gamblers,
>San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan

Thanks Mark.

Laura


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