Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:50:51 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> To: angio@aros.net (Dave Andersen) Cc: alk@think.com, michaelv@MindBender.serv.net, sckhoo@asiapac.net, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: mail storage Message-ID: <199608231950.MAA15353@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <199608231852.MAA24458@terra.aros.net> from Dave Andersen at "Aug 23, 96 12:52:50 pm"
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> Or better yet, run:
>
> sendmail '-qI<theirdomain>'
Ahh... don't you mean -qR<theirdomain>? -qIsubstr looks at queue-Id's,
queue-id's are not going to have there domain name in them:
GndRsh:rgrimes {105} mailq
Mail Queue (2 requests)
--Q-ID-- --Size-- -----Q-Time----- ------------Sender/Recipient------------
AAA11666 1084 Thu Aug 22 00:04 rgrimes
(HeadCandy.com: Name server timeout)
michaelv@HeadCandy.com
NAA10653 1905 Wed Aug 21 13:07 rgrimes
(HeadCandy.com: Name server timeout)
michaelv@HeadCandy.com
^^^^^^^^^
queue-id
This -qR must be new with 8.7, much nicer way to handle what use to take
a lot of hacking...
> 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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