Re: Working with SerialMail and Queue

[Dave Sill]

Carlo Manuali [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

My problem was to manage the queue manually, to send E-Mail only at some
hours (ex. 8 am and 5pm).

Can someone help me to explain how can i have to use serialmail (or other
way) to do this with the products that i have already installed?

Install serialmail. In particular, you need maildirsmtp, which takes a 
mailbox in maildir format and sends the contents via smtp. Configure
qmail to deliver all outgoing mail to a maildir mailbox by adding the
following entry to control/virtualdomains:

  :alias-catchall

and creating the associated .qmail file:

  echo ./outgoing/ ~alias/.qmail-catchall

In whatever script you use to bring up your network connection, add a
maildirsmtp invocation to send the mail queued in ~alias/outgoing. Or
set up cron jobs at 8 AM and 5 PM to run maildirsmtp, if you know the
connection will be up at those times. See the maildirsmtp man page for 
details on running it.

-Dave

Working with SerialMail and Queue

[Carlo Manuali]

Hi to all.

Sorry if I already post a similar question, but i don't understand the best
way that should I follow.

I've installed qmail with vpopmail, qmailadmin and sqwebmail and I manage
many domains and users very efficently via web.

My problem was to manage the queue manually, to send E-Mail only at some
hours (ex. 8 am and 5pm).


You and others told me to try serialmail or work with switch, but unlikely
i'm not very well (i'm newbies about administration...) and my ideas are
very confused.


Can someone help me to explain how can i have to use serialmail (or other
way) to do this with the products that i have already installed?

Whatever help is appreciated.


Thanks for your patience,

  --Carlo


Carlo Manuali
Centro d'Ateneo per i Servizi Informatici (CASI)
University of Perugia
ITALY