From: martin f krafft (postfix-users=postfix.orgmass.madduck.net)
Date: Tue Jun 06 2006 - 07:33:34 CDT

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Dear Wietse, dear all,

Thank you for your reply, in which you point me to

> man 1 at

I do feel silly now for not giving more background.

Of course I know at(1), but there are several reasons I don't want
to use it:
  - it requires a shell process for every delayed mail echo
    "sendmail < my.msg" | at whenever
  - if some{thing,body} removes my.msg before at runs, tough luck.
    In fact, I don't really see a point why I should leave my.msg
    around. Of course, I could use a tempfile, which I'd have to
    delete afterwards.
  - at has a lot of overhead in general and is certainly not the
    right tool to offer delayed mail service to thousand of users
    (IMHO, YMMV).

I am sure there are other reasons. Having this feature in postfix
seems (to me, I am a layman) to be not very intrusive, yet clean and
rather logical.

FYI: here's the source of the feature request:
  http://blog.madduck.net/geek/2006.06.06-delayed-mail

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