Книга: Linux Network Administrator Guide, Second Edition

Forcing a Remote Host to Process its Mail Queue

Forcing a Remote Host to Process its Mail Queue

If you use a temporary dial-up Internet connection with a fixed IP address and rely on an MX host to collect your mail while you are disconnected, you will find it useful to force the MX host to process its mail queue soon after you establish your connection.

A small perl program is included with the sendmail distribution that makes this simple for mail hosts that support it. The etrn script has much the same effect on a remote host as the runq command has on our own. If we invoke the command as shown in this example:

# etrn vstout.vbrew.com

we will force the host vstout.vbrew.com to process any mail queued for our local machine.

Typically you'd add this command to your PPP ip-up script so that it is executed soon after your network connection is established.

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