In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write:
>On Mon, Nov 09 1998, Leon Breedt spake thus:
>
>i just noticed something else.
>
>> i'm running exim on a dialup box, with some success. i can get
>> local messages (via fetchmail) delivered fine.
>or maybe not so fine. after running fetchmail, i see local messages
>aren't all delivered immediately, some of the fetchmail-forwarded messages
>are still lurking in the queue. i have to do a runq to get them into
>my mailbox.
Put this in the main configuration section of /etc/exim.conf:
queue_remote = true
This should cause it to only queue messages for remote systems; locally
delivered messages should then not be queued.
For your other question: you can check whether there is an outgoing
smtp connection:
if netstat --ip -n | grep ':25 *ESTABLISHED' > /dev/null
then : smtp connection is active
else : no active smtp connection
fi
or check if there is a sendmail process active:
if pidof exim > /dev/null
then : exim is running
else : no exim process found
fi
Hmmm, maybe the process is called sendmail and not exim. Experiment.
Paul Slootman
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