From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 29 17:14:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA01496 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 29 Jan 1996 17:14:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from Aspen.Woc.Atinc.COM (aspen.woc.atinc.com [198.138.38.205]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA01485 Mon, 29 Jan 1996 17:14:06 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jmb@localhost) by Aspen.Woc.Atinc.COM (8.6.12/8.6.9) id UAA20922; Mon, 29 Jan 1996 20:13:32 -0500 Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 20:13:32 -0500 (EST) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" X-Sender: jmb@Aspen.Woc.Atinc.COM To: Bora Akyol cc: hackers@freebsd.org, doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Configuring a queue for sending mail in intervals In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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 i am moving to a new job. PLEASE USE: jmb@FreeBSD.ORG