From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Nov 27 09:16:58 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA29959 for isp-outgoing; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 09:16:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.calweb.com (mail.calweb.com [165.90.138.20]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA29951 for ; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 09:16:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from devnull.calweb.com (devnull.calweb.com [165.90.138.92]) by mail.calweb.com (8.8.3/8.8.3) with SMTP id JAA19279; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 09:16:33 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <3.0.32.19961127091306.007ef430@pop.calweb.com> Warning: Unsolicited Commercial Email (UCE) will be returned to send in bulk X-Sender: jfesler@pop.calweb.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 09:15:17 -0800 To: "Daniel O'Callaghan" , Richard Gresek From: Jason Fesler Subject: Re: initiate sendmail Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 > > -- Jason Fesler jfesler@calweb.com Internic: 'whois jf319' Admin, CalWeb Internet Services http://www.calweb.com Junk email returned, in bulk, back to sender; w/copies to all postmasters. You got junk mail problems? Use Eudora Pro, MSIE's mail, or 'man procmail'.