Am 2003-10-03 13:29:10, schrieb Jeff Jansen:
>Sorry, I missed that part. I thought we were talking about the same machine.
>So you want all the mail to sit there until your cron job triggers courier to
>send it and which time your demand dialing will kick in and mail will get
>sent out?
Yes. One time per hour is enough.
>I think you're going to have to resort to a script hack to make that work with
>courier. Anand's idea of changing the MAXDELS variable, restarting courier
>and then flushing the queue would work. In that case nothing would get sent
>until you ran the script. Then you'd have to reset the variable to 0 when
>you were done sending.
>
>I think I would use an iptables rule to stop courier sending out until the I
>wanted it to. So something like this:
;-)
I was working on it
;-)
>======================================
>#!/bin/sh
>
>/sbin/iptables -D OUTPUT -p tcp -m tcp -o eth0 --dport 25 -j REJECT
>/usr/lib/courier/sbin/courier flush
>
>while (`sleep 60`); do
> PS=`/bin/ps -axww | egrep -c "courieresmtp [0123456789]" `
> if [ $PS == 0 ]; then
> break
> fi
>done
>
>/sbin/iptables -I OUTPUT -p tcp -m tcp -o eth0 --dport 25 -j REJECT
>======================================
Nice Script...
I think, this is what I need.
The weekend I will try it.
Question: If it works, can I use your Script to include it into my
Debian Installation Handbook 3.0 ?
>Jeff Jansen
Many Thanks and Greetings
Michelle
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