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From: vixie@decwrl.dec.com (Paul A Vixie)
Subject: Re: How efficient/fast is uucp?
In-Reply-To: news@m2xenix.psg.com's message of 25 Aug 90 19:33:29 GMT
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Date: 26 Aug 90 15:53:29
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I've got IDA sendmail, which is able to generate BSMTP scripts.  Decwrl
lets incoming UUCP requests execute the "bsmtp" command, and that all
works fine.  I need one more piece to get rid of the inter-file handshake
delay:

If I generate a BSMTP file, it will have in it exactly one mail transaction.
This is the same as for "rmail".  What's needed is a way to get many of
these concat'd together into a single UUCP request, and since they can
be uux'd at different times (up to the uucico interval), sendmail is not
the place to put the concat logic.

The only way I can think of to solve this is to put the bsmtp scripts into
some non-UUCP place and concat them with a perl or sh script run from cron.
This script would concat everything in, say, /var/spool/bsmtp/uunet/ into
one big file and then uux that to uunet!bsmtp.

Anybody else done this?  Did it help at all?  What was the value for N?
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Paul Vixie
DEC Western Research Lab	<vixie@wrl.dec.com>
Palo Alto, California		...!decwrl!vixie
