behavior with deferred mail

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3 total messages Started by brendan@cs.widen Tue, 17 Sep 1991 11:42

#3895

Author: brendan@cs.widen
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1991 11:42

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 I'm curious .. is there a way to accomplish the following?

	* all clients punt local mail to the server
	* and perform delivery to off-site systems themselves
	* if a message gets deferred after its first attempt, is there
	  any way to have the client send it on to the server, where it
	  can sit and spool?  I'd much rather that than have it sit
	  and spool on the client, which doesn't have as much space for
	  the mqueue

 Just a thought..
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     Brendan Kehoe - Widener Sun Network Manager - brendan@cs.widener.edu
  Widener University in Chester, PA                A Bloody Sun-Dec War Zone
                    ". . .  if you were a gas, you would be inert." -- Dieter

Re: behavior with deferred mail

#3896

Author: Craig_Everhart@T
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1991 15:40

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The Andrew mail delivery software (AMDS), freely available on X.V11R4
and soon to be on the X.V11R5 contrib section, does all that you
suggest.  Only problem is that it's really best suited to be the local
delivery agent for an entire AFS cell, which can include 2-10000+ users.

		Craig

Re: behavior with deferred mail

#3903

Author: avolio@decuac.de
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1991 01:19

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You run a program that moves things in the queue that are "Deferred" (if no
lock file exists, you create one and move, then remove the lock file)
into a different queue.  You periodically run sendmail against THAT
queue using a different config file (all this is doable from the sendmail
command line -- see the man page) which sends all its mail to another
host.

1. the only way mail can get into the special queue is if you program moved
it there.

2. the only way to clear that special queue is a special run of sendmail
with a different config file -- a very small one that sends everything
to the other, smarter host.

F

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