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Re: Delayed smtp-delivery



Paul Dekkers wrote:

> Not such a good solution for me because people from within my network
> have
> to send mail using smtp.
> (Using sendmail I ran 'sendmail -bd -q 1h' and I marked all mailers as
>
> expensive and enabled 'keep expensive'. That was a good solution; no
> connections were made when an e-mail was sent (e.g. no for nameserver
> lookups and to sent the mail)... (just after an hour the queue process
>
> starts...)
>

Just launch smtpserver from inetd. It will leave all of the pending
e-mail in the postoffice until you launch your router and scheduler.
(don't forget to change your $ZMAILER/bin/zmailer script to exclude
smtpserver from startup).

Dean.