Yes,
not a bad idea. At least then we could control the amount of emails being
sent out each hour as well, so we could split the load up.
The
other option is to write some scripts that access the DB directly from the Linux
box and send the mails out. I havnt used Linux for about 5 years now so
maybe a bit behind when it come to the languages available... ideally I would
prefer something similar to VBScript, any suggestions?
Dan
-----Original Message-----My understanding is that sendmail only uses the mqueue if it is configured to queue the mail rather than sending it right away. And even in that case, it is sendmail itself that writes the messages to that directory after an SMTP connection has been used to get the message to sendmail.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Shannon Neumann
Sent: 15 January 2003 06:45
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Sendmail
I suppose what could be done is to create a shell script that scans your shared directory and sends the messages to sendmail, and then run that script as a cron job every hour or whatever, but it would take a little thought to make sure that would work correctly.
Shannon Neumann
Neumannweb Computers
www.neumannweb.net
Daniel Field wrote:
I know it works with a pickup directory (eg: /var/spool/mqueue). I want our server based application which runs from a Win2K box to be able to write to this mail queue for sendmail to pickup the mail and send them on, this does away with the overhead of a SMTP connection for each mail send. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Nick Lindsell Sent: 15 January 2003 16:32 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Sendmail At 16:22 15/01/2003 +0000, you wrote:Hi, If there is a better list for this question then please tell me so.... What I want to do is share a directory from my Redhat box (I have managed this part) and then be able to use that directory as a drop point for emails for sendmail to pickup and send out. Similar to the way the Microsoft SMTP service works. Is this possible? If so anyone know of any links with info regarding this?Sendmail doesn't work like that (if I understand you correctly). If you want to send out mail with SMTP via sendmail then configure your mail client (Outlook, Eudora, whatever) to use the Redhat machine as the outgoing SMTP server. What *exactly* are you trying to do? <puzzled> nick@nexnixThanks, Dan-- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list _____________________________________________________________________ This e-mail has been scanned for viruses by the WorldCom Internet Managed Scanning Service - powered by MessageLabs. For further information visit http://www.worldcom.com
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