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On Friday, in article <817268425snx@warren.demon.co.uk>
     leveret@warren.demon.co.uk "Nick Leverton" wrote:

NL> In article <816695036snz@wash.demon.co.uk>
NL>    John Washington <john@wash.demon.co.uk> writes:
..
NL> one is queued.  As you mentioned in the pub last night, this is no doubt

We need a laptop.  Preferably a beer-proof one.

NL> due to its desire to queue all messages for the same destination via the
NL> same connection.  It would be an interesting experiment to rip that code
NL> out ^[BBBBd4W carefully modify that area and see what happens.

:-)  It would.  I may try, or hope that someone else will.
Any takers?

NL> However, some remote SMTP servers might be unhappy about being
NL> potentially blasted with 30 or more simultaneous single-message
NL> connections - Demon's mail2news, for instance !  It might be necessary

I don't think this will occur.  I have "smtp maxclients 9"
in my a/exec.net, and I think as standard it's only 12.

NL> to somehow limit connections to a single site again, or to introduce an
NL> alternative form of per-site queue.
NL> 
NL> Another thing, again as you suggested, is to remove "smtp batch"
NL> entirely.  I really cannot see who would want to use it, given that one
NL> cannot tell whether the remote server accepts it until one sees the
NL> bounce - by which time it is too late.

Is that definitely so?  What a pity the enhancement in servers
wasn't accompanied by some extra command that could indicate
the availability, or something like the "XYZ spoken here" msg
that some generate at start up.

But if there's no way to find out, short of falling over,
there could be a config file for ka9q to read, with a list
of batch accepting servers.

Or, how about doing the check while offline?  Preprocess
mqueue, moving batchable mail into a subdir 'mqbat'.
Then have two smtp clients, one for each subdir.

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NL> Mainstream KA9Q has, I understand, diverged rather from ours now.  Is
NL> there a known place - FTP site or newsgroup - where other versions of it
NL> live ?  Maybe there might be some ideas or fixes from other people.

Excellent point.  PLEASE, anyone with info.

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John Washington