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- From: chris@visionware.co.uk (Chris Davies)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
- Subject: Re: Replacing UUCP with SMTP in this age...
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.104710.8787@visionware.co.uk>
- Date: 10 Sep 92 10:47:10 GMT
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- ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis) writes:
- : Options I've seen used include the old standby UUCP-over-TCP, a "finger
- : trigger" where fingering the 'server' causes it to flush the queue for
- : that client, and there's always the TURN command in SMTP, if anyone ever
- : implemented it ;-)
-
- Assuming your client is prepared to issue commands after connection, a
- more transparent (to the server) hack is to execute the command
- "/usr/lib/sendmail -q" on the server - it forces a queue run to deliver
- any email to hosts that are now reachable. Unless, of course, you know
- different (or you're running a version of Unix which doesn't have
- execute permission for world on sendmail). Again this presupposes
- sendmail rather than smail3 or mmdf (about which I know near enough
- nothing).
-
- Chris
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