Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 09:15:17 -0800 From: Jason Fesler <jfesler@calweb.com> To: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au>, Richard Gresek <rg@plusnet.de> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: initiate sendmail Message-ID: <3.0.32.19961127091306.007ef430@pop.calweb.com>
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There is another option.. Sendmail 8.8.x (at least, my 8.8.3)
has an option called "ETRN". Telnet to the port, type
"ETRN domain.name", and sendmail will run the queue, without
requiring a complete login to the mail host. Easy enough to
script even :-).
(sleep 5; echo "ETRN domain.name"; sleep 60) | telnet mailhost 25
Crude, but works in a pinch..
At 01:59 PM 11/27/96 +1100, Daniel O'Callaghan wrote:
>
>
>On Tue, 26 Nov 1996, Richard Gresek wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
>In the 'privacy flags' section of sendmail.cf, there is a definition
>Opgoaway,restrictqrun
>
>Remove restrictqrun to allow non-root users to start the queue processing.
>You might also like to rearrange the MXs. We are the 1st MX for our
>customers like this, and we have defined:
>
># If we are the best MX for a host, try directly instead of generating
># local config error.
>OwTrue
>
>That way a remote site will deliver straight to you, without trying
>the customer connection. You then send to your customer. Only works for
>'hosts', so you need to get your customer to name their mail machine
>'customer.com' as well as 'hostname.customer.com' in the DNS. Just put
>an A record in the DNS for 'customer.com'.
>
>Danny
>
>
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