Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 14:09:02 -0600 (MDT) From: Dave Andersen <angio@aros.net> To: rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes) Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mail storage Message-ID: <199608232009.OAA30971@terra.aros.net> In-Reply-To: <199608231950.MAA15353@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at Aug 23, 96 12:50:51 pm
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<open mouth, insert foot, learn to check the sendmail man page first>
You are, of course, correct. sendmail -qR would do a much better job. :)
-Dave
Lo and behold, Rodney W. Grimes once said:
>
> > 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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> >
> >
>
>
> --
> Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com
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>
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