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Anything obviously wrong with this idea?

It doesn't seem that the 'mover' should be checking the age of things in queue 1. The idea is just to not send messages more than a few times a day, not to introduce extra delay.

Also, it's easy to configure Mailman to use some smtp port other than 25 for sending and thus send only to to the first sendmail and be the only thing that does so, but you may not want to delay all Mailman mail, e.g. an on demand password reminder or a held message notification. The mover needs to be smart. I think it should check queue1 frequently and if a queued message has a Mailman generated Message-ID: of the form move it right now, otherwise wait until x hours since the last "bulk move" at which time it moves everything and updates the last bulk move time.

-- Mark Sapiro mark@msapiro.net The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan

Thanks Mark.

Laura