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From: chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: V.32 vs. PEP for lots of small uucp transfers
Message-ID: <27482D95.50FD@tct.uucp>
Date: 19 Nov 90 19:08:04 GMT
References: <406@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca> <8263@gollum.twg.com> <427@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca>
Organization: Teltronics/TCT, Sarasota, FL
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According to lyndon@cs.athabascau.ca (Lyndon Nerenberg):
>It's easy. You spool the messages in BSMTP format, one per file
>without the HELO/QUIT wrappers, using seperate directories for
>each site you chat with. Next, create a simple shell script that
>can be run to batch and compress all outstanding messages for a
>given site and queue it up in UUCP.

Code to support the above approach is provided with Smail 3.1.

>For incoming polls, give the site a login "shell" that:
>	1) Kicks off the mail batcher, then
>	2) exec's uucico

This is an interesting approach, but it may be counterproductive if
you desire to increase batch size despite frequent polls for incoming
mail.
-- 
Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT     <chip@tct.uucp>, <uunet!pdn!tct!chip>
    "I've been cranky ever since my comp.unix.wizards was removed
         by that evil Chip Salzenberg."   -- John F. Haugh II