And in case you're confused by the reference to sendmail, the postfix
smtp daemon is also called sendmail, so it can be a dropin replacement.
Bill
On Mar 27, 2007, at 6:33 PM, William M Conlon wrote:
By straightforward I meant that you could mimic examples available
on google et al. For example, here's a perl subroutine:
#mail the state of the cgi
sub mail() {
my %message = $_[0];
open(SENDMAIL,"|/usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -t -odq")
or die "Can't fork for sendmail: $!\n";
print SENDMAIL <<"EOF";
From: Bill Conlon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Bill Conlon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: TTPCMS bug report
EOF
while ( my ($k,$v) = each %message) {
print "$k \= $k => $v\n";
}
close(SENDMAIL);
}
called by the following snippet:
&mail(%message); #%message is a hash containing info to be send in
the body
The point is that it's pretty simple to write your output to
sendmail, just like writing it to a webstar folder.
I don't think you need to worry about overloading sendmail, though
spawning a new perl process for each mail is not efficient. If
that's an issue, you might have perl query the database instead of
witango.
Bill
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On Mar 27, 2007, at 4:00 PM, Wayne Irvine wrote:
William M Conlon at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I use postfix, but my witango interface is through the mail action.
My experience with WebStar Mail was that it couldn't keep up with the
Witango action and missed a lot of mails. IS this the same with
Postfix or
is it quicker? We're talking 6000 emails.
It's straightforward to write a shell or perl script to send mail
via
smptd.
Straightforward for you maybe. ;)
Sorry, I'm a bit of a newby when it comes to shell scripts and
interfacing
with Witango. Willing to learn!
But won't this have the same issues of overloading due to number of
available transactions on the SMTP server?
Wayne Irvine
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