Bug 284184: Allow Bugzilla to use an asynchronous job queue for sending mail.

Patch By Max Kanat-Alexander <mkanat@bugzilla.org> and Mark Smith <mark@plogs.net> r=glob, a=mkanat

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/template/en/default/admin/params/mta.html.tmpl b/template/en/default/admin/params/mta.html.tmpl
index 800fbad9b..8533257f4 100644
--- a/template/en/default/admin/params/mta.html.tmpl
+++ b/template/en/default/admin/params/mta.html.tmpl
@@ -45,6 +45,16 @@
   mailfrom => "The email address of the $terms.Bugzilla mail daemon.  Some email systems " _
               "require this to be a valid email address.",
 
+  use_mailer_queue => "In a large $terms.Bugzilla installation, updating"
+    _ " $terms.bugs can be very slow, because $terms.Bugzilla sends all"
+    _ " email at once. If you enable this parameter, $terms.Bugzilla will"
+    _ " queue all mail and then send it in the background. This requires"
+    _ " that you have installed certain Perl modules (as listed by"
+    _ " <code>checksetup.pl</code> for this feature), and that you are"
+    _ " running the <code>jobqueue.pl</code> daemon (otherwise your mail"
+    _ " won't get sent). This affects all mail sent by $terms.Bugzilla,"
+    _ " not just $terms.bug updates.",
+
   sendmailnow => "Sites using anything older than version 8.12 of 'sendmail' " _
                  "can achieve a significant performance increase in the " _
                  "UI -- at the cost of delaying the sending of mail -- by " _