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[Olivier Salaün - CRU <address@concealed>]

Ewan wrote:

> I may be a bit daft here, but where does Sympa store emails that it's waiting 
> to include within a Digest? In /home/sympa/spool/digest/?
>  
Indeed

> Also, in the docs there is the following warning:
>
> "WARNING: if the sending time is too late, Sympa may not be able to process it. It 
> is essential that Sympa could scan the digest queue at least once between the time laid 
> down for sending the digest and 12:00 AM (midnight). As a rule of thumb, do not use a 
> digest time later than 11:00 PM." (20.4.9)
>
> Does Sympa purge the spool where it's storing emails waiting to get included 
> within the digest at midnight?
>  
No but if you configure the list to send a digest every monday at 23:59, 
then Sympa might miss some digests because it won't send it at 23:50 and 
won't send it at 0:01 the next day (because it's no more monday). This 
period of time might be too short.

> Finally, there's an option to send digests with a maximum of (say) 25 emails 
> in each digest - are digests sent out when that number is reached or does it 
> wait until the predefined time and send multiple digests?
>  
If a digest is split, the trigger is still the time and days configured 
; therefore all digest messages are sent at the same time, ie hypothesis 
number 2.