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In article <wswFpiAk459xEAxi@turnpike.com>
           richard@turnpike.com "Richard Clayton" wrote:

>turn up the tracing and see exactly what turns up....  you must be right
>that the problem is in KA9Q because no-one reports problems from the
>punts like this with Turnpike; however you need to have some idea what
>sort of data is involved.

It's been known about for ages (years, literally).  The precise size of
the file which triggers it depends on how fast your hardware is, but
basically it hangs waiting for the disk access (which it can't
multi-task properly, this is DOS!).  I believe there were modifications
made several versions back which improved it a bit, but obviouslty not
enough.

>see above ... once you've sent the OK you are responsible for the mail.
>KA9Q avoids a lot of complexity by putting in into its final resting
>place before it says OK.

I believe that using 'smtp queue' does that by doung a rename into the
~/rqueue directory instead of copying it to the end of the .txt file,
but it's a long time since I looked at the code.  It certainly *could*
do that with no risk and be a lot faster.

The disadvantage is that you then have to sort the mail outside KA9Q -
that could be an advantage, of course, depending on what you want to do
with it.  I believe it also disables the alias file but couldn't find
out why (at least it does something odd with the alias conversions when
'smtp queue' is on, again I don't remember exactly)...

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