Re: sendmail

[<karlp ourldsfamily com>]

Here's what I use, instead of using sendmail -bp:


#!/bin/sh
mailq -v|more
echo
echo "  There are"`mailq -v|grep '@'|wc -l`" Total Recipient Emails"
echo " Comprizing"`mailq -v|grep AA|wc -l`" Total Unique Emails"
echo
echo " To see them all, execute mailq -v"
echo
ps ax|grep sendmail|grep -v grep|grep -v accepting


I named it mq and put it in /usr/bin, executable by any user (755).

Hope this helps.

Karl L. Pearson
Senior Consulting Systems Analyst
Senior Consulting Database Analyst
karlp ourldsfamily com
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On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Steve Fernandez wrote:

Hi Guys,

    I have sendmail installed at home, and I use a dialup connection.
After I connect to my ISP, I run fetchmail to fetch all my mail from my
POP3 server. By this time, sendmail, running in background, would have
sent all messages in queue to my IMAP server. I want to know the status
of sendmail at any time, or make it output a message when it has
transferred all messages in the mail queue to my SMTP server, so that I
do not terminate the connection to my ISP while a mail transfer is in
progress. Could somebody give me a script or anything else to satisfy
the above requirements?

Regards,
Steve Fernandez.

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