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- From: andyw@aspen32.cray.com (Andy Warner)
- Subject: Time dependant delivery question.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.110858.21866@hemlock.cray.com>
- Originator: andyw@aspen32
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- Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
- Date: 22 Jan 93 11:08:57 CST
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- I'm running a recent version of IDA sendmail on a Sun 3/50.
- For reasons I won't bore you with, I'd like to control the actions
- of sendmail according to the time-of-day. What I need to do is
- not initiate certain outgoing SMTP requests (even retries) for
- specific times. The criteria could be priority, or maybe the
- destination address (either host or user@host).
-
- I was thinking of using a DBM file to map (say) "user@host"
- onto a string like "MoTuWeThFr0800-1600" [or whatever, that's
- not a problem].. Then in smtpinit() I would look up
- user@host (is that available from smtpinit() ?) using mapkey(),
- check the time (if present) against the wall clock, and defer
- if required.
-
- Does this sound reasonable, am I re-inventing a wheel ?
-
- Any ideas/suggestions would be most welcome, if there's
- interest, I'll summarise to the net.
-
- Thanks.
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- andyw. N0REN/G1XRL
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- andyw@aspen.cray.com Andy Warner, Cray Research, Inc. (612) 683-5835
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