Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:52:50 -0600 (MDT) From: Dave Andersen <angio@aros.net> To: alk@think.com (Tony Kimball) Cc: michaelv@MindBender.serv.net, sckhoo@asiapac.net, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: mail storage Message-ID: <199608231852.MAA24458@terra.aros.net> In-Reply-To: <199608231754.MAA04591@compound.Think.COM> from "Tony Kimball" at Aug 23, 96 12:54:37 pm
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Or better yet, run:
sendmail '-qI<theirdomain>'
so you're only processing the mail that's actually supposed to go to them
when they set off the trigger.
-Dave Andersen
Lo and behold, Tony Kimball once said:
>
> Quoth Michael L. VanLoon on Fri, 23 August:
> : They probably just want you to run sendmail with a frequent retry.
> : They could connect to you, dumping mail out, and your sendmail daemon
> : should retry often enough to see that they are there and start dumping
> : mail back to them.
>
> Why not just write a tiny little inetd service to run
> sendmail -q when you get a packet from their server?
> A 5 minute perl hack. The corresponding NT client
> can also be a 5 minute perl hack.
>
>
>
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