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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers sendmail command Post 28914 by RTM on Thursday 26th of September 2002 09:57:52 AM
Old 09-26-2002
The -q option is for retries in sending the mail. It will try immediately to send the mail, and if it could not, it would try again at the interval you set in -q. If -q isn't set, then it tries only once, immediately.

If sendmail is running on the system, it might be that if you used -q in the command and it failed to go, that the normally running sendmail process (one started on boot) could grab the message later to attempt to send (Not positive on this point but my testing shows this to be true - I disabled DNS to insure the email could not go but then the normally running sendmail will try every 15 minutes to send again).

If you don't want to send the mail now, then putting in a sleep command or scheduling an at job in a minute from now might be what you would want to do. Looking in the mailx and sendmail programs, I found nothing to delay sending a message. Possible that some other mail client could do this (like pine)

Added note: This may be something to help you out but would be changing how you send all mail possibly. local versus remote mail
Last edited by RTM; 09-26-2002 at 11:08 AM..
 

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praliases

praliases(1)							   User Commands						      praliases(1)

NAME

       praliases - display system mail aliases

SYNOPSIS

       praliases [-C configfile] [-f aliasfile] [key]

DESCRIPTION

       The  praliases  utility displays system mail aliases. When no key is given, praliases displays the current system aliases, one per line, in
       no particular order. The form is key:value. If a key is given, only that key is looked up and the appropriate  key:value  is  displayed	if
       found.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       -C configfile	Specifies a sendmail configuration file.

       -f aliasfile	Reads the specified file aliasfile instead of the default sendmail system aliases file.

OPERANDS

       The following operands are supported:

       key    A specific alias key to look up.

EXIT STATUS

       The following exit values are returned:

       0     Successful operation.

       >0    An error occurred.

FILES

       /etc/mail/aliases	Default sendmail system aliases file

       /etc/mail/aliases.db	Database versions of the /etc/mail/aliases file

       /etc/mail/aliases.dir	Database versions of the /etc/mail/aliases file
       /etc/mail/aliases.pag

       /etc/mail/sendmail.cf	Default sendmail configuration file

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWsndmu 		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       mailq(1), newaliases(1M), sendmail(1M), attributes(5)

SunOS 5.11							    29 Mar 2004 						      praliases(1)
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