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Date:      Mon, 29 Jan 1996 20:13:32 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@freebsd.org>
To:        Bora Akyol <bora@wireless.stanford.edu>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org, doc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Configuring a queue for sending mail in intervals
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960129200137.20891B-100000@Aspen.Woc.Atinc.COM>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960129122746.1475A-100000@lightning.Stanford.EDU>

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On Mon, 29 Jan 1996, Bora Akyol wrote:

> I have a system that is modem+ppp connected to the net and I download my 
> user's mail every hour, I would also like to queue emails so that I can 
> upload the emails to an SMTP server via sendmail or whatever. Is there an 
> easy way of doing this?

	queue the mail, dont attempt delivery?  in /etc/sendmail.cf
replace 'Odbackground' with 'Odqueued' [sendmail p503].  invoke
/usr/sbin/sendmail with a '-q1h' to specify the a periodic delivery
interval.  (or use m for minutes, h for hours.  1 is the number of units:
hours or minutes) [sendmail p259].  if you upload mail, irregularly use 
'/usr/sbin/sendmail -q' each time that you connect.

> Is there a book out there that explains this?

	sendmail by bryan costales, o'reilly & assoc.  nearly 800 pages.

Jonathan M. Bresler        FreeBSD Postmaster         jmb@FreeBSD.ORG
play go. ride bike. hack FreeBSD.--ah the good life 
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