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Date:      Sun, 12 Oct 1997 00:01:43 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
Cc:        bradley@dunn.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: UUCP (important clarification)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.971012000123.8026I-100000@current1.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <199710110219.TAA10855@usr02.primenet.com>

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so what about mail queued to multiple domains?


On Sat, 11 Oct 1997, Terry Lambert wrote:

> > sendmail's way of queueing mail is not compatible
> > with ETRN.
> 
> This is probably more accurate.
> 
> It's actually a pretty simple hack to sendmail to name the file based
> on the destination domain, and a little more complicated to make it
> queue run only on that domain.
> 
> Actually, I have a slightly different gross hack I've used to avoid
> hacking the sendmail queueing itself (still have to hack ETRN, though):
> 
> o	Under cron, grep the domain(s) you ETRN for out of the header
> 	entries in the queue, and move them to another (domain specific)
> 	directory.
> 
> o	Connect the ETRN up for the domain so that it uses the
> 	-oQ <domain specific directory>
> 
> You just have to be sure to process it frequently enough (or at the
> right times) to avoid introducing a delivery latency.
> 
> Then ETRN never runs except on files queued for a particular domain.
> 
> 
> 					Terry Lambert
> 					terry@lambert.org
> ---
> Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
> or previous employers.
> 




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