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Date:      Tue, 26 Nov 1996 22:20:55 -0600 (CST)
From:      Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
To:        rg@plusnet.de (Richard Gresek)
Cc:        freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: initiate sendmail
Message-ID:  <199611270420.WAA18244@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
In-Reply-To: <199611261927.UAA29485@gds.de> from "Richard Gresek" at Nov 26, 96 08:26:12 pm

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> Hallo,
> 
> we provide the secondary mx for a customer. The customer connects to 
> our services several times a day automatically to get the mails to 
> his primary mx (We do not call his site when a mail for his domains 
> errived). Our sendmail sends the mailqueue every 30 minutes. At the 
> momen he has to stay 30 minutes online to be sure that all mail is 
> gone to the primary mx.
> 
> Is there a command that would initiate sendmail to send all the mails 
> now? The user has not root-privilages on our machine of course.
> 
> Thans in advance

Add something.

Simple idea: add an entry to inetd along the lines of

mumble stream tcp wait root /usr/sbin/sendmail sendmail -q

where mumble is some service port you and he agree to. 

Then when he brings up his net connection, he can kick off a
program to tickle that port.

Recent sendmails, I believe, have some support for something
similar to this that is less of a hack.

... JG



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