On Thu, 10 Sep 1998, Paul Slootman wrote:
> Now, I currently have queue_smtp set, so that exim doesn't immediately
> cause a dialout when a message is sent. However, I'd love to see some
> way of telling exim it's ok to immediately deliver a message when the
> connection is up and running (otherwise it'll be queued, and perhaps
> cause a dialout when 'exim -q' is run, and waste money).
could a script which did this under a cron-job...
#!/bin/sh
ping smarthost-at-isp
if [ ?$ -eq 0 ] ; then
exim -some-flags-which-trigger-email
fi
Paul
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