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Re: Deferred delivery to a pager

1998-01-14 11:03:12
I asked about Mike de Laine's post,

| > Mike's subject line, which I've kept, mentions "deferred delivery," though.
| > I'm not sure how deferral fits in, because he said nothing about it in the
| > body of his post.

He explained:

| What I want to achieve is
| send the message onto the pager if the hours are "normal" otherwise, defer
| delivery to the pager until the hours become normal.

Ah, thanks.  Whole other ball of wax.

| The best method I've seen so far was to copy the message to a temporary
| area and mail that to the pager or defer the mailing via at, if the
| timeframe is inappropriate.

Yes, that's the best I can think of: spool untimely pages to a folder, and
when paging hours begin (or a minute or two thereafter in case a page that
arrived too soon is on its way into the folder) have a cron job split the
folder, forward the pages, and then delete them.

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