efetch - stages pending email notifications from NOAH Database
efetch [OPTIONS]
efetch is an administration program that processes the NOAH Database pending email notifications and creates a staging area in the database where the companion program esend can then process and send messages at a more leisurely pace.
There may be a wrapper script in /usr/bin with noah- prefix that calls this program in the correct run directory.
efetch locks the database so there is no data corruption where as esend does not need to do this.
efetch also re-generates the user GROUP and WORLD email lists in the NOAH database to be used by esend if necessary.
Staging and
sequencing
efetch tests two files in the NOAH database.
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if DATA_DIR/sendmail.tab does not exist, no action is taken and program aborts. | ||
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if DATA_DIR/email/sendmail.tab exists (note email directory) then again, nothing is done because esend will delete this file when finished ... so efetch will assume esend is still working on sending emails and abort to be called at a later time. |
efetch [-v] [-vv] [-q] [-h] [-help] [-database DATABASE] [-m n]
-m N set chmod to N (octal) when creating DATA_DIR/email directory. Defaults to 0750.
-database DATABASE
Defaults to default but if you want to change it to a different database name you can do so with this command.
-v Print more verbose messages to screen to tell you what it is thinking ...
-vv Print even more verbose messages to screen to tell you what it really is thinking ...
-q quiet - no messages to screen. -h short usage help
-help This help document.
This program is found in the admin directory and expects to be run from there.
In a Debian distribution, this program has a link to the wrapper program in the admin directory typically /usr/lib/noah/admin and the link name has a noah- prefix and is found in /usr/bin.
NOTE: In a typical installation, the email.bash or email.bat script is what calls this program along with the companion esend both of which are found in the admin directory.
/usr/bin/efetch
This is a link to wrapper
/usr/lib/noah/admin/wrapper
This is a generic bash shell wrapper to start the program in the admin directory.
/usr/lib/noah/admin/efetch
This is the actual executable called by the wrapper.
/usr/lib/noah/database.config
This is typically a link to /etc/noah/database.config in a Debian release.
DATA_DIR/sendmail.tab
Pending email messages created by NOAH Database user interaction.
DATA_DIR/email/sendmail.tab
Expanded (more fields) database file created by efetch and deleted by esend when finished.
efetch -v -n
0700
Process pending emails and prepare for esend to do
the email sending!
Create email directory with 0700 permissions.
Harold Blount - Nordicwind Inc. www.nordicwind.ca
http://noah.@nordicwind.ca
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