lyndon@cs.athabascau.ca (Lyndon Nerenberg) (11/23/90)
chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) writes: >>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. Well, I figure that if the remote site has called, you might as well make it worth their while and send along whatever mail is queued for them. -- Lyndon Nerenberg VE6BBM / Computing Services / Athabasca University {alberta,cbmvax,mips}!atha!lyndon || lyndon@cs.athabascau.ca Packet: ve6bbm@ve6mc [.ab.can.na] The only thing open about OSF is their mouth. --Chuck Musciano
greg@cheers.Bungi.COM (Greg Onufer) (11/26/90)
lyndon@cs.athabascau.ca (Lyndon Nerenberg) writes: >chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) writes: >>>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. Then don't poll frequently--- first minute costs are going to kill you anyways if the call is long distance. Of course, it all depends on what you are trying to optimize. >Well, I figure that if the remote site has called, you might as >well make it worth their while and send along whatever mail is >queued for them. Exactly. My machine 'cheers' calls 'daver' (on occasion) and 'daver' will batch and compress mail waiting for me. If I don't call, then 'daver' will batch mail sometime during the early morning hours and call me then. This is a combination of Smail 3.1 and Sendmail 5.65+IDA. I perform compressed SMTP batching with Sendmail via a new mailer definition and two short shell scripts (one sendmail calls, the other makes batches and ships them off). It's not very hard and it is fairly effective. Cheers!greg