Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!decwrl!bacchus.pa.dec.com!vixie From: vixie@decwrl.dec.com (Paul A Vixie) Subject: Re: How efficient/fast is uucp? In-Reply-To: news@m2xenix.psg.com's message of 25 Aug 90 19:33:29 GMT Message-ID: Sender: news@wrl.dec.com (News) Organization: DEC Western Research Lab References: <8464@pitt.UUCP> <1556.26d282ea@dcs.simpact.com> <1990Aug25.193329.13643@m2xenix.psg.com> Date: 26 Aug 90 15:53:29 Lines: 21 I've got IDA sendmail, which is able to generate BSMTP scripts. Decwrl lets incoming UUCP requests execute the "bsmtp" command, and that all works fine. I need one more piece to get rid of the inter-file handshake delay: If I generate a BSMTP file, it will have in it exactly one mail transaction. This is the same as for "rmail". What's needed is a way to get many of these concat'd together into a single UUCP request, and since they can be uux'd at different times (up to the uucico interval), sendmail is not the place to put the concat logic. The only way I can think of to solve this is to put the bsmtp scripts into some non-UUCP place and concat them with a perl or sh script run from cron. This script would concat everything in, say, /var/spool/bsmtp/uunet/ into one big file and then uux that to uunet!bsmtp. Anybody else done this? Did it help at all? What was the value for N? -- Paul Vixie DEC Western Research Lab Palo Alto, California ...!decwrl!vixie