topic Sendmail in Operating System - Linux

Sendmail

Choppa Kumar — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 15:34:47 GMT

can some help me how to generate a script file to move the mails from queue to specified path automatically .

Re: Sendmail

Senthilmurugan — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 23:06:11 GMT

Hello Choppa Kumar,

Use the following commands

#mkdir /tmp/mymailqueue
#mv /var/spool/mqueue/* /tmp/mymailqueue

This will move all your mail queue to the /tmp/mymailqueue Directory. You can also specify your own directory

Put it in the crontab.

#crontab -e

There you specify

30 10 * * * mv /var/spool/mqueue/* /tmp/mymailqueue

This will move the mail queue every day at 10:30 AM

Regards,
Senthil Murugan

Re: Sendmail

Muthukumar_5 — Thu, 16 Sep 2004 01:50:37 GMT

Mail queues are stored on /var/spool/mqueue/* directory there. You can view the queued mail's as,

mailq

Try to move the content's /var/spool/mqueue directory to your path with script as,

mkdir 700 /tmp/mailqueue
while true;
do

mv /var/spool/mqueue/* /tmp/mailqueue/.

# sleep time for 10 hours
sleep 36000

done

or as simple use cronjob for this.

Re: Sendmail

Choppa Kumar — Thu, 16 Sep 2004 14:05:04 GMT

Thanks ton