Is there any pickup folder in sendmail?

[Stingreen]

Well, is there?
In windows SMTP there is such a folder, but couldn't find any in sendmail.
There also is one in postfix, called maildrop.
Thanks.

 

[jad]

what do you mean by 'pickup' folder?

do you mean /var/spool/mqueue ... where the mail is stored whilst it is processed? or /var/mail where the mail for local users is stored?

or do you mean something else?

 

[Stingreen]

In windows SMTP, there are such folders like,Queue,Badmail... and there is one more, pickup. I'm too in a loss to understand what it does actually but basicly it forwards the incoming mail to queue folder by changing its extension. It's pretty much like a queue but it's not. I'm looking for the exact same folder in linux sendmail to be able to run a specific tag in linux which is cf_advancedmail.

 

[jad]

umm ... in sendmail there is /var/spool/mqueue ...
the bad queue stuff is sent to postmaster ... there isn't a 'pickup' as far as i'm aware in sendmail. what does the cf_advanced_mail thingamy do?

 

[Stingreen]

Basicly, cf_advancedmail is used to send mails. But the difference from cf_mail is that, cf_mail sends the mails direcly into the queue which was working with our linux sendmail since it's sending mails directly into /var/spool/queue. However, how cf_advancedmail tag works is that, it directly "writes" the mails into the mail server rather than spooling first in the CF server's spool directory. But the difference is it first writes into some kind of "pickup" directory then, it forwards it to /var/spool/mqueue, at least this is what it suppose to do. We tried to write emails directly into /var/spool/mqueue but it didn't work. The queue is sitting still, so we're still at a lost to find a solution.
Thanks for any help!

 

[jad]

umm ... why are you trying to write directly to the queue?

can you not use a mail tool, or format the mail and send it directly to the sendmail program?

 

[Stingreen]

Because it's much faster.
By the way, we can forget about this topic because I contacted to the writer of this tag and he told me that there is no way I could run it with sendmail.
So thanks for any input.
And let's move on!

 

[jad]

sending mail via sendmail isn't slow, use it all the time with scripts files and the works ... but if you've got another solution then thats fine

Jon