putmail-queue(1)                 User Manuals                 putmail-queue(1)



NAME
       putmail_enqueue.py - Inserts messages into message queue
       putmail_dequeue.py - Calls putmail.py for each enqueued message

SYNTAX
       putmail_enqueue.py [arguments]
       putmail_dequeue.py

DESCRIPTION
       These  two  programs provide a queuing system for putmail.py.  The rest
       of this manual page supposes you know what putmail.py is and  that  you
       are  familiarized with it, just like a regular user. See putmail.py(1).

       A queuing system can be used if you want  to  compose  one  or  several
       e-mail  messages  in  a row but you will be unable to send them inmedi-
       atelly. Or maybe your connection is slow and you prefer  composing  all
       the messages first and send them all together later.

       Usage  is  very  simple.  putmail_enqueue.py is supposed to receive the
       same program arguments as putmail.py and read the e-mail  message  from
       standard  input, like putmail.py does. It is the program you should use
       in the same place you used the normal putmail.py  program.  On  a  side
       note,  it will not check arguments or message correctness. All messages
       are saved to the following directory:

              $HOME/.putmail/queue/

       The program will not create the directory, so you must create it first.
       That  is  important.  Make  sure you have read and write access to that
       directory. As e-mail messages are going to be saved in there,  you  may
       want  to restrict access to that directory for security or privacy rea-
       sons.

       Later, once you have  some  messages  in  the  mail  queue,  call  put-
       mail_dequeue.py.  The  program does not receive any arguments and will,
       in fact, ignore them. It will iterate through each e-mail  message  and
       try  to  send each one with putmail.py, so putmail.py should be in your
       PATH. After each successful delivery, it will try to remove the  e-mail
       message from the queue. The program will print what it is doing and the
       result of each operation for each message. Lines begin with the message
       file name between brackets.  Should putmail.py fail delivering the mes-
       sage or any other problem encountered, it will be printed on screen.

       The last three lines of output are a summary of how many messages  were
       in  the queue, how many were sent and how many were deleted. Under nor-
       mal circumstances, all three numbers should be the same.  If  they  are
       not, check the rest of the output for problems encountered.

OPTIONS
       putmail_enqueue.py should receive the same arguments as putmail.py, due
       to the fact that putmail_dequeue.py will use them when calling the for-
       mer later.

       putmail_dequeue.py ignores all arguments.

FILES
       $HOME/.putmail/queue/
              Queue  directory.  Make  sure  you have read and write access to
              this directory.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
       HOME   Specifies the home directory for the invoking user.

       PATH   putmail.py should be in your path.

AUTHORS
       Ricardo Garcia: http://sourceforge.net/users/rg3/

SEE ALSO
       putmail.py(1)



Ricardo Garcia Gonzalez               0.2                     putmail-queue(1)