Thanks to sysadmin_at_astro...., Thomas Bucholtz, Xavier Mertens!
I'm currently looking into the message queueing suggestion for sendmail.
Jefff
Responses
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Deliver them to a local mailbox, then forward them at the desired time
using
a crontab entry or equivalent.
You may want to store each message in its own file for convenience.
Procmail (
http://www.procmail.org/) can store your incoming messages
in Maildir format. Then you can install serialmail
(
http://cr.yp.to/serialmail.html) to forward the mail at the right time.
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With the latest sendmail released (8.10.x if I remember) you can manage
more than one mail queue. It should be possible to store your mails in
different queue and "dequeue" them at different intervals!
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Original Question:
On 2002-02-15 11:06:37 -0600, Jeffrey_Hummel_at_albemarle.com wrote:
> Is there a way to delay delivery of SMTP messages to a specific
> destination?
>
> The reason I ask is I have a heavily loaded notes server that is very
busy
> each evening. While I still need to dump data from my source system
every
> 30 minutes, I don't need to transfer the data to the Notes server until
> about 6 am each morning. The reason this is important is that every time
a
> new message arrives on the notes server, it triggers the indexes to be
> rebuilt. To prevent this I'd like to delay the SMTP delivery of messages
> to this Notes database until the next morning. Is there a way to delay
> delivery of SMTP messages to this specific destination?
>
> Thanks in advance!
> Jeffrey Hummel
> Albemarle Corporation
>
Received on Fri Feb 22 2002 - 18:19:54 NZDT