Re: Sendmail

[Shannon Neumann]

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.

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.

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Sent: 15 January 2003 16:32
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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@nexnix
  

Thanks,

Dan

    

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