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Re: UUCP mail gets queued instead of sent



Eloy A. Paris wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> sorry again for the off-topic question...
> 
> following the advice several people in the list gave to me last week,
> I set up UUCP to handle e-mail between our main office and our remote
> branch offices.
> 
> I can write e-mail and it gets sent to the UUCP job queue. Later, when the
> systems connect, the jobs are processed and rmail is run in the remote host.
> Everything is fine except that rmail (sendmail?) queues the new messages.
> Of course, Sendmail processes later the mail queue when it is time (-qxxm
> parameter when sendmail is started where xx is the number of minutes)
> and mail gets delivered.
> 
> What I want to know is if there is a way mail can be sent right away
> without queuing it after the remote job (rmail) is done.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any suggestion you UUCP/Sendmail gurus.

If you're using UUCP to transport your mail then is it necessary to 
run sendmail in queue-mode? Otherwise there really isn't a way to fix
your problem is kinda non-trivial (but certainly possible!)

-- 
Jens B. Jorgensen
jjorgens@bdsinc.com


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