From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 24 09:54:37 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC2C816A41F for ; Tue, 24 Jan 2006 09:54:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from simond@irrelevant.org) Received: from home.irrelevant.org (dsl82-163-99-113.as15444.net [82.163.99.113]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E5A343D49 for ; Tue, 24 Jan 2006 09:54:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from simond@irrelevant.org) Received: from [83.244.151.179] (helo=localhost.localdomain) by home.irrelevant.org with esmtpsa (TLSv1:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 4.60 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1F1Kse-0001ol-As; Tue, 24 Jan 2006 09:54:29 +0000 From: Simon Dick To: ulf@Alameda.net In-Reply-To: <20060124022032.GI83399@evil.alameda.net> References: <768cbe130601221107t774b50dbp785640aef5473e33@mail.gmail.com> <20060124012941.GA6825@sta.duo> <20060124022032.GI83399@evil.alameda.net> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 09:54:09 +0000 Message-Id: <1138096449.61938.1.camel@laptop.lcn.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.2 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -1.4 (-) X-Spam-Report: Content analysis details: (-1.4 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- -1.4 ALL_TRUSTED Passed through trusted hosts only via SMTP Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sending mail to SMTP from command line X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 09:54:38 -0000 On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 18:20 -0800, Ulf Zimmermann wrote: > One option is like running sendmail -q from cron every 15 minutes. So if > you use sendmail to send something, it fails on first try, it puts it in the > queue and the cronjob will try to deliver it again. Or set sendmail_flags="-q15m" to tell sendmail to run in the background but retry sending it's queue every 15 minutes, saves doing it via cron :) -- Simon Dick