Re: [Linuxvm-dev] Slow email generation in vmta

[Matt D. <mda...@se...>]

> On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 10:19:39AM -1000, Dean Takemori wrote:
> > I believe I have a possible solution (conceptually anyway, no
> > code yet) for the blocking slow email generation problem. The
> > idea is to have the vmta put the essential parts of the email,
> > except for the attachment into a queue. Another process is
> > responsible for grabbing the info from the queue and actually
> > doing the attachment and mail. A long message will therefore
> > just slow down processing the queue and not block the vmta.
>
> I actually thought that part was going to be the vmta. :)
>
> -Vince

Since the VMTA is going to be called by another process it shouldn't be a
problem.  It is only being called for testing purposes from the record
message routine.

Is there a cron that runs every minute?

-Matt