Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 22:38:35 +0100 From: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> To: Perry Hutchison <perryh@pluto.rain.com> Cc: freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail && dhcp Message-ID: <20150227213834.GA2324@c720-r276659> In-Reply-To: <54f0dc41.NVD2hFGwt9XGczfB%perryh@pluto.rain.com> References: <20150226144245.GA1346@c720-r276659> <44bnkgsmcl.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> <20150226194012.GA2695@c720-r276659> <4461aoe96j.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> <20150226203154.GA2853@c720-r276659> <44k2z4ci8y.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> <54efe697.xdtSCVZsiZDqV7lP%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <20150227130145.GA3591@c720-r276659> <54f0dc41.NVD2hFGwt9XGczfB%perryh@pluto.rain.com>
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El día Friday, February 27, 2015 a las 01:06:09PM -0800, Perry Hutchison escribió: > > To read and write I'm using mutt as MUA. mutt can fetch with IMAP(S) and > > send with SMTP+SSL; but this (sending directly) is not what I want, I > > want to queue up the outbound mails and send them at once (see above for > > the reason); so, sendmail is the natural option; > > Indeed, but that does not necessarily mean that you need a sendmail > *daemon*. I haven't used mutt, but I have the impression that it is > capable of invoking sendmail directly (via fork/exec, passing the > message on stdin) rather than having to keep a daemon running all > the time to accept the occasional SMTP connection on 127.0.0.1:25. > In fact, depending on how you have it configured, mutt may > *currently* be running a sendmail process (via fork/exec) for each > message you send, rather than using the local sendmail daemon. mutt uses sendmail (i.e. pipes the mail to something like 'sendmail -t -f ....) which queues the mail for further delivery; and this is what I want: queue all the answered mails until I open the Wifi uplink and all answers are going out at once. I think, this is only possible with a configured sendmail daemon and queue runner. matthias -- Matthias Apitz, guru@unixarea.de, http://www.unixarea.de/ +49-170-4527211 La referencia de la Duma a la anexión de la RDA, en este caso al contrario con la Crimlía sin referéndum, no solamente tiene gracia sino da en el blanco.- Marinos Yannikos @MarinosYannikos en un blog de RTdeutsch.
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