Minperiodicnonurgent, minperiodicnormal, minperiodicurgent, maxperiodicnonurgent, maxperiodicnormal, maxperiodicurgent Channel Options

Priority of messages to be handled by periodic jobs
OBSOLETE: These channel options have no effect nowadays, with the Job Controller. See instead Job Controller priority-based processing.

In the past: When periodic delivery jobs were used, they normally processed all messages queued for the channel. However, on some channels it may be desirable to limit normal periodic job processing to only messages of specified priorities. Other special site-supplied periodic jobs may then process the remaining messages. For instance, a site might choose to have normal MTA periodic jobs pass over nonurgent messages, leaving those nonurgent messages to be delivered by some site-supplied job (perhaps scheduled to run at off-peak hours).

The,  , or   channel options specify the minimum priority of message that a periodic job should try to deliver; the job will ignore messages of lower priority. The,  , or   options specify the maximum priority of message that a periodic job should try to deliver; the job will ignore messages of higher priority.

See also:
 * Job Controller priority-based processing
 * Channel options