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Re: How do you get server sendmail to forward queued items AFTER PPP attach

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From: Stephen Kennedy
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 00:00
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Michael Doyle wrote:
> 
> We run SUNOS and connect to Demon over 14.4 Modem.  In our office we use POP
> for the PCs and sendmail forthe other UNIX boxes.  What I'd like to know, is
> how Demon get the waiting mail to be sent to me after I attach?  Is it all in
> the /usr/spool/mqueue area and somehow my login causes a queue run to be
> forced?  How is that achieved when the login is on a router box?  The reason I
> want to know is I would like to connect a couple of home users (UNIX) to the
> system and I seem to have to run the sendmail queue really frequently to get
> anything working.  Surely Demon can't do this?

Erm, are you simply saying that you want sendmail to attempt to empty its
queue? If so:

sendmail -qv

The v means verbose and is therefore optional.

If that is not what you are after then please accept my apologies.

-Steve
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From: Stephen Kennedy <steve@kalika.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: How do you get server sendmail to forward queued items AFTER PPP attach
Date: 1996/04/23
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