DAVIDLI@SIMVAX (David Paschall-Zimbel) (01/25/90)
I've been receiving complaints from a user that mail which arrives from an Internet address is not immediately transferred to the machine where he has set up a forwarding address. The time stamp does seem to indicate that the local machine receives the mail message at time x and then successfully transfers it to the remote machine at time x + (some time less than 4 hours). For example, a message arrived via TCP/IP and was sent out via TCP/IP about 2 hours later. I suspect that the local message gets "delivered" and then submits the message to the PMDF queue where it waits until the next time the delivery batch job executes. The questions: 1) Does this sound like a valid theory? 2) The user wants me to basically decrease the time period for the delivery batch job from 4 hours to 5-15 minutes. Are there any caveats or reasons that this would not be a good thing? The process is running on a MicroVAX II which serves as the boot node for a LAVc (13 nodes total). Conceivably there would be times when one delivery process would start up while another had not yet finished. Thanks for any help you might give. The user refuses to take "that's the way it is" as an answer, and I don't mind accomodating him IF it doesn't affect other users detrimentally. -- David Paschall-Zimbel