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[Brian Morrison]

On Wed, 29 Sep 1999 08:23:21 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:

>Wednesday, September 29, 1999, 5:20:00 AM, John wrote:
>> Fine, but that's only if you insist on using Windows on the other end.
>
>    That is my whole point, John.  Semaphore files have a reason and it is a
>valid one.  The file system is often the lowest common denominator.  I would
>much rather have a system look for semaphore files than anything else because
>those I can control in so many different ways it isn't even funny.

However, on the original comment about using the presence of a file to
trigger an event, it means that one needs to check for this file
frequently and incur a performance loss, or check infrequently and get
slow response. I would much prefer a hook that I can pull to trigger
things in the same way that sendmail -q does. I know it starts a
separate instance, but as by background sendmail is not actually
processing the queue there is no conflict.

To correct and error I made a few days back, sendmail 2.02 for OS/2 is
not equivalent to 5.6.5 for Unix, that was the older 1.3.x version. The
2.02 version is a port of 8.6.11 so I'm led to believe, I think the
anti-relay stuff appeared in 8.8.x.


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Brian Morrison                                  bdm@fenrir.demon.co.uk

 'The village populace is jumpin' on faces, catchin' the javelin, 
 Headin' the shot.' [FX: wet thud - "Oooo.."]