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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Cache and triggers
Message-ID: <1990Nov13.163558.4164@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 13 Nov 90 16:35:58 GMT
References: <2738ea59-fcomp.mail.uucp@tronsbox.xei.com>
Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
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In article <2738ea59-fcomp.mail.uucp@tronsbox.xei.com> tron1@tronsbox.xei.com (HIM) writes:

>    I am connected to UUNET for email, and I would like to have better
>control over the link. I would like my machine to call UUNET under either of
>two circumstances :

>   1: The normal way , if a Poll entry and a Systems file let a poll happen,
>      it runs.

>   2: If more that "X" bytes or "X" jobs build up for UUNET , I want it to
>      call anyway.

Smail 3.1 allows configuration options for which systems have the -r flag
(just queue, don't execute uucico) set in the uux command.  You could
probably hack something similar into smail 2.5 or write a little front-end
for uux that checks the destination host on the command line and adds
the -r before execing the real uux for uunet.
For item 2, you would just need a cron job that peeks in the spool directory
or runs uustat and starts up a uucico under the specified conditions - a
simple shell script should suffice (hmm... the uux front-end could be a
script as well).

Les Mikesell
  les@chinet.chi.il.us