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From: ccdan@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu (Dan Dorough)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: priority...
Message-ID: <3429@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>
Date: 1 Jan 89 08:52:33 GMT
References: <3999@hubcap.UUCP>
Reply-To: ccdan@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu (Dan Dorough)
Organization: University of California, Davis
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In article <3999@hubcap.UUCP> hubcap@hubcap.UUCP (Mike Marshall) writes:
> Does anyone do much with priorities in sendmail? I can vaguely imagine using
> them locally for some purpose, but unless one does have such a scheme set up,
> is there any reason to have them in one's cf file?

for priorities less than zero, sendmail will not bother to
return bounced messages on failure.  i have a few "junk"
mailing lists here with lots (>50) of recipients, and i
use "Priority: junk" to short-circuit a lot of failed mail
trash.  (if junk mail dies, it dies.)  fairly useful, in
a limited way.

--dan dorough, ucdavis systems programmer, ccdan@ucdavis.edu