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From: forys@snake.utah.edu (Jeff Forys)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: Sendmail 5.61 and rmail
Summary: That was a mistake.
Keywords: rmail, sync/async
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Date: 17 Feb 89 00:48:36 GMT
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Organization: University of Utah, Computer Science Dept.
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In article <2275@unmvax.unm.edu> mike@turing.cs.unm.edu (Michael I. Bushnell) writes:
> The rmail.c distributed with sendmail 5.61 specifies a -odq option to
> sendmail, which asks sendmail to queue the mail for later delivery and
> not deliver it immediately.  Is there a significant reason for this,
> or can I just change it to -odb for normal background delivery?

Yeah, I noticed this too.  We checked with Keith a couple weeks ago.
The `-odq' thing was a mistake and can be changed to do immediate
delivery; although I'd prefer staggering the jobs using `-odi' rather
than `-odb'.
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