Jeff Jansen writes:
On Thursday 02 October 2003 10:32, Anand Buddhdev wrote:
I found another solution to this by experimentation: If I set the MAXDELS
in module.esmtp to 0, then the whole system can be running, but courier
will make no attemtp to deliver email via ESMTP. A simple script can change
this value to some positive number before a dial-up, complete deliveries,
and then switch it back to 0 after the dial-up.
Very slick. Does courier have to be restarted before the change takes effect
or is it enough to just change the setting?
Unfortunately, yes, the courierd process will need a restart, since it
initialises MAXDELS at startup.
/usr/lib/courier/sbin/courier restart
The additional benefit of doing it this way is that courier will not
generate any deferral logs, since it will never have tried the deliveries in
the first place! I find it easiest to create 2 files, called
module.esmtp.on, and module.esmtp.off, with my required MAXDELS values in,
and copy them to module.esmtp as required, followed by a courier restart.
Having said all this, I personally much prefer exim for dial-up sites,
because exim is simply so configurable. It even provides a handy option
called "queue_smtp", which dutifully queues all non-local deliveries until
you issue "exim -q" to start a queue run and deliver email.
I've recently setup a site where I use maildrop, courier-imap and sqwebmail
for all the front-end user applications, and exim as the MTA. Everything
works beautifully, and it needed no patching of any kind. Just works "out of
the box".
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