gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) (09/29/86)
When I was managing mail in the Sun internal network, I ended up adding
an option to sendmail which would process all queued mail which contained
a user-specified string: sendmail -Rstring. This could be used when
a host came up after being down, to clear out the queue. I also added
-Mqueueid to try to deliver a single message from the queue.
This change should be in the 4.3BSD sendmail. It can't be done from
the remote site, though, unless you can login from there. It would
probably not be hard to add a command to the SMTP server that would
do this. The security problem could be resolved by having the
server reply with "Yes, OK", break the connection, then go off and
run its queue, calling OUT to deliver the mail as usual.
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John Gilmore {sun,ptsfa,lll-crg,ihnp4}!hoptoad!gnu jgilmore@lll-crg.arpa
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