Re: Sending a deferral warning back to the sender?
Jack McKinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: nice to be able to specify it on the command line, that way I can run multiple versions in order to generate, for example, a 15m warning, a 4h warning, and a 3d warning. Before I get too far into proving a race condition and writing around this, has this issue come up before? There is an (earlier) alternate implementation in Perl called 'qmail_bounce'. I used it for years without problems (after some small changes to notify only senders from our domains). On qmail.org: * Brian T. Wightman has written a delayed-mail notifier. * Another delayed-mail notifier is available from Matt Ranney. I use the one from Brian. Regards, Frank
Sending a deferral warning back to the sender?
I have been searching the archives for this, but found nothing so far. sendmail would send the sender a warning after 2 hours (actually, this time was configurable) if it has been unable to send the message. Can qmail do this? Currently, if our support staff sends a customer an email, they may not find out for 5 days that the email never reached the customer for whatever reason (badly typed email address, etc.). I have looked through the man pages and done several searches through the archives to no avail. The fact that I did not find a discussion of why qmail does not do this (especially when someone posted a long list of sendmail 'features' that qmail was missing, but did not list this one) gives me hope that it is actually in there somewhere. I also found nothing on the web site or in the FAQ, so now I am tackling source code 8-(. -- There is no parameter that makes it impossibleJack McKinney for you to perform still more excellently. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Mario Cuomo, on the lack of a clock in baseballhttp://www.lorentz.com 1024D/D68F2C07 4096g/38AEF076 PGP signature
Re: Sending a deferral warning back to the sender?
Jack McKinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been searching the archives for this, but found nothing so far. See qmail.org. The answer is there. Charles -- --- Charles Cazabon[EMAIL PROTECTED] GPL'ed software available at: http://www.qcc.sk.ca/~charlesc/software/ Any opinions expressed are just that -- my opinions. ---
Re: Sending a deferral warning back to the sender?
* Jack McKinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010606 13:54]: I have been searching the archives for this, but found nothing so far. (Hint: try searching the archives on ``notify''.) sendmail would send the sender a warning after 2 hours (actually, this time was configurable) if it has been unable to send the message. Can qmail do this? Currently, if our support staff sends a customer an email, they may not find out for 5 days that the email never reached the customer for whatever reason (badly typed email address, etc.). [http://untroubled.org/qmail-notify/] /pg -- Peter Green : Architekton Internet Services, LLC : [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory... (By Larry Wall)
Re: Sending a deferral warning back to the sender?
Big Brother tells me that Charles Cazabon wrote: Jack McKinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been searching the archives for this, but found nothing so far. See qmail.org. The answer is there. As I indicated, I did search there. I found nothing. Could you be more specific? PGP signature
Re: Sending a deferral warning back to the sender?
Big Brother tells me that peter green wrote: * Jack McKinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010606 13:54]: I have been searching the archives for this, but found nothing so far. (Hint: try searching the archives on ``notify''.) [http://untroubled.org/qmail-notify/] Thank you. I'll check this out. PGP signature
Re: Sending a deferral warning back to the sender?
Big Brother tells me that peter green wrote: [http://untroubled.org/qmail-notify/] OK. I installed this and am running it from a cron job, with an expiration of 15 minutes. It seems to work fine. I note two things, though. Firstly, it appears that there might be a race condition in the time checking/saving code that could cause a message to slip through the cracks and not generate a notification. Secondly, there is only one notification timestamp file to record when the last run is. It would be nice to be able to specify it on the command line, that way I can run multiple versions in order to generate, for example, a 15m warning, a 4h warning, and a 3d warning. Before I get too far into proving a race condition and writing around this, has this issue come up before? PGP signature
