Re: pausetime file

Nick Leverton <[email protected]> Tue, 19 Jul 2011 14:39:31 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.mail.nullmailer
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 07:42:04AM -0400, Thomas A. Moulton wrote:
> When does the pause time go into effect?
> 
> Is the pause time applied to each message or the whole queue?
> 
> Like the other control files I assume to set the pause to 15 mins I
> just have a line like:
> 
> 900
> 
> What is the default setting? (no file)

doc/nullmailer-send.8 says,

"pausetime
      The  number  of seconds to pause between successive queue
      runs when there are messages in the queue (defaults to 60).
      If this is set to 0, nullmailer-send will exit immediately
      after going through the queue once (one-shot mode)."

So it's per queue run, not per message.

Nick