On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 03:22:41PM +0100, Dan H. wrote:
> for a home computer that gets shutdown daily, I'd like to implement a
> function which:
>
> 1. makes sure that all pending outgoing mails are sent off.

Here's what I've come up with. Anything not to like?

#!/bin/sh

# install with this as root:
# # update-rc.d flushmail defaults 21 19
# assuming that exim has sequence number 20 on startup and shutdown.


### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: flushmail
# Required-Start:
# Required-Stop: exim4 mail-transport-agent
# Should-Start:
# Default-Start:
# Default-Stop: 0 1 6
# Short-Description: Flush mail queue
### END INIT INFO

set -e

QUEUERUNNER="/usr/sbin/runq"

if [ ! -x $QUEUERUNNER ] ; then exit 1 ; fi

case "$1" in
start)
echo "Not flushing on startup"
;;

restart|stop)
echo -n "Flushing mail queue..."
$QUEUERUNNER
echo "done."
;;
esac

exit 0

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