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From: Dave Andersen <angio@aros.net>
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Subject: Re: mail storage
To: rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes)
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 14:09:02 -0600 (MDT)
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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
> Accurate Automation Company                 Reliable computers for FreeBSD
> 


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