[ILUG] silly thing..

[Lars Hecking]

Dave Airlie writes:
> 
> Why does sendmail always dequeue backways?.. as in LIFO style, why won't

 It doesn't.

> it start at the the other end of the queue and go FIFO, if it did that at
> least e-mail would have a better chance of being in-order ...
 
 What is "in order"? Does order matter at all? What is the right order
 for a site with a couple of thousand email users?

 Check out section 4.3 in the Sendmail Installation and Operation Guide.

 Then, the practical exercise:

# grep ^P /etc/sendmail.cf /var/spool/mqueue/qf*

 Correlate with 

# /usr/lib/sendmail -bp

 :)