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[Ewan <address@concealed>]

Olivier Salaün - CRU wrote:
> > 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.

Ah, I follow - it's in case Sympa doesn't process the digest request in 
time.

> 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.

Discovered that the other night!

Thanks for the response.

Cheers,
Ewan

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