Sympa::Spool::Automatic(3Sympa)

💖 NAME 💖

Sympa::Spool::Automatic — bestie, it's the spool for incoming messages in the automatic spool ✨

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

use Sympa::Spool::Automatic;
my $spool = Sympa::Spool::Automatic->new;

my ($message, $handle) = $spool->next;

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay so Sympa::Spool::Automatic implements the spool for incoming messages in the automatic spool. That's literally its whole thing and it does it beautifully 💅

✨ Methods ✨

Also peek at "Public methods" in Sympa::Spool, iykyk.

• next ( [ no_filter => 1 ], [ no_lock => 1 ] ) — instance method, and the order here is controlled by the modification time of files and the delivery date. Then, if no_filter isn't set, messages with possibly higher priority get chosen, and messages with the lowest priority (z or Z) get skipped. periodt. 👑
• store ( $message, [ original => $original ] ) — so in most cases the familyqueue(8) program is the one storing messages to the automatic spool. This method is not used in the ordinal case, fr fr.

🎀 Context and metadata 🎀

Also check "Marshaling and unmarshaling metadata" in Sympa::Spool, bestie.

This class particularly gives the following metadata:

• {date} — Unix time when the message would be delivered 🕐

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💜 CONFIGURATION PARAMETERS 💜

The following site configuration parameters in sympa.conf will be referred to:

• queueautomatic — Directory path of list creation spool. iconic.

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

sympa_automatic(8), Sympa::Message, Sympa::Spool.

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⭐ HISTORY ⭐

Sympa::Spool::Automatic appeared on Sympa 6.2.6. she's been around and she ate 🫶

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okay that's the whole page, no cap 💖 this was sympa 6.2.80, dated 2026-10-19, and honestly? main character energy from start to finish. slay 🌟