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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