Hello,

I have a program that communicates with a third-party machine running
sendmail. I don't have access to the third-party machine, and I would
like to be able to occasionally send a high priority message that can
effectively jump to the front of the queue for quick processing.
Could anyone please recommend the best way of doing this?

Thanks,

Philip.

flobolob@gmail.com wrote:

> I have a program that communicates with a third-party machine running
> sendmail. I don't have access to the third-party machine, and I would
> like to be able to occasionally send a high priority message that can
> effectively jump to the front of the queue for quick processing.

Well, any SPAMmer would do the same, wouldn't s/he?
Ask the admin of the "third-party machine" to arrange something like
that.

> Could anyone please recommend the best way of doing this?

Use Instant Messaging. (Jabber, ICQ, SMS, ...)

-ska

On May 11, 8:55 pm, flobo...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a program that communicates with a third-party machine running
> sendmail. I don't have access to the third-party machine, and I would
> like to be able to occasionally send a high priority message that can
> effectively jump to the front of the queue for quick processing.
> Could anyone please recommend the best way of doing this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Philip.

The best legal way? Talk to the admin/owner of that machine.

On May 14, 7:48 am, ska <s...@mail.inf.fh-brs.de> wrote:
> flobo...@gmail.com wrote:
> > I have a program that communicates with a third-party machine running
> >sendmail. I don't have access to the third-party machine, and I would
> > like to be able to occasionally send a high priority message that can
> > effectivelyjumpto the front of thequeuefor quick processing.
>
> Well, any SPAMmer would do the same, wouldn't s/he?
> Ask the admin of the "third-party machine" to arrange something like
> that.

I was actually thinking along the lines of increased precedence, can
anyone suggest any other features that might please?

Unfortunately IM isn't appropriate in this case.

Thanks,

Philip.

On May 16, 8:38 pm, flobo...@gmail.com wrote:
> On May 14, 7:48 am, ska <s...@mail.inf.fh-brs.de> wrote:
>
> > flobo...@gmail.com wrote:
> > > I have a program that communicates with a third-party machine running
> > >sendmail. I don't have access to the third-party machine, and I would
> > > like to be able to occasionally send a high priority message that can
> > > effectivelyjumpto the front of thequeuefor quick processing.
>
> > Well, any SPAMmer would do the same, wouldn't s/he?
> > Ask the admin of the "third-party machine" to arrange something like
> > that.
>
> I was actually thinking along the lines of increased precedence, can
> anyone suggest any other features that might please?
>
> Unfortunately IM isn't appropriate in this case.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Philip.


Sendmail has intricate ways of treating messages with the Precedence:
header set.

see doc/op/op.txt for more information.

Furthermore, the precedence values can be overriden in the sendmail
config and spam filters can target it as a spam scoring sign.