On Mon, Feb 22, 1999 at 05:12:42PM -0500, Jim Foltz wrote: > > You should still be able to use runq to force an immediate delivery... > > at least, it still works on my system (slink). > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] which runq > > /usr/sbin/runq > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ls -l /usr/sbin/runq > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Nov 11 06:31 /usr/sbin/runq -> exim > > > > Perhaps /usr/sbin isn't in your $PATH? > > well, I get an error of: "exim: permission denied" when I run runq as > a non-root user. smail was not like this. This makes sense, I am just > used to doing things a certain way.
Oops... it looks like you need to add yourself to group "mail" in order to do that. It's been long enough that I forgot all about doing that. > > If you want to force exim to deliver all incoming mail immediately, you > > can add "smtp_accept_queue_per_connection = 0" to /etc/exim.conf. > > Ok, this helped alot. Maybe I'm warming up to exim a little. It took a bit of getting used to for me, but then I can't really claim to be TOO familiar with smail or sendmail either. I really like how well it handles address rewriting, tho... fought with smail on that for quite awhile, and never did manage to get it "just so".
