Okie, I've got a little suggestion, that I haven't got time (or I'm too
lazy) to implement myself.
How about having diald create an empty file, when the link is up (eg.
/etc/diald-link-up, so that we can script on the link status eg:-
if [ -r /etc/diald-link-up ]
then
/usr/sbin/sendmail -q
fi
This is something that I would certainly find useful. At the moment, I
can do this, based on the ppp0.pid, in /var/run, but this is a bit of a
hack, since not everyone uses ppp, and consistent behaviour would be
'nice'
While I'm here, something that might be useful for your FAQ - well, it
would have helped me :) :-
Q: Sending mail with Pine brings up the link. How do I prevent this?
A: Actually, it is not pine that brings the link up, it is (if you use it)
sendmail doing a DNS lookup. You can prevent this, by using 'ignore' on
domain requests, in your filter. This is not ideal, since it prevents
other DNS lookups from bringing the link up. An alternative is to make
pine tell sendmail to defer lookups until the queue is run.
To achieve this, edit the os-xxx.h, in <pine-src-root>/pine/osdep/
you probably have -odb, somewhere in your SENDMAILFLAGS string. change
this to -odd (or add it if you have nothing like this there). Recompile
pine. Er...that's it!
Note: sendmail is usually started (at boot time) to run the queue quite
frequently (typically every 15 minutes). You may want to change this to a
higher value. Search your boot scripts for the command that invokes
sendmail, an replace the -q15m (example) with -qxxz (where xx is the time,
and z is the units 'm' for minutes 'h' for hours 'd' for days). This is
particularly nice, because the mere act of running the queue should bring
up the link (if you 'accept' domain packets), on a regular basis and send
your mail if you have any.
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