From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Aug 23 12:53:33 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA01275 for isp-outgoing; Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:53:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from GndRsh.aac.dev.com (GndRsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA01258 for ; Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:53:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by GndRsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id MAA15353; Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:50:51 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199608231950.MAA15353@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: mail storage To: angio@aros.net (Dave Andersen) Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:50:51 -0700 (PDT) Cc: alk@think.com, michaelv@MindBender.serv.net, sckhoo@asiapac.net, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199608231852.MAA24458@terra.aros.net> from Dave Andersen at "Aug 23, 96 12:52:50 pm" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL11 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-isp@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Or better yet, run: > > sendmail '-qI' Ahh... don't you mean -qR? -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. > > > > > > > > > -- > angio@aros.net Complete virtual hosting and business-oriented > system administration Internet services. (WWW, FTP, email) > http://www.aros.net/ http://www.aros.net/about/virtual > "There are only two industries that refer to their customers as 'users'." > > -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD