From: Barry Finkel (b19141@ACHILLES.CTD.ANL.GOV)
Date: Thu Mar 13 2003 - 10:24:33 EST
>I was under impression that even if you only have outgoing mail but want
>it a bit more reliable, i.e will queue mails up if the destination is
>down, you need sendmail running.
If there is outbound mail, and sendmail cannot deliver it, AND sendmail
is not running, then the mail will sit in the mailq forever.
On systems that do not have inbound mail and thus do not have sendmail
running, we have this cron:
# Run sendmail periodically to deliver any queued mail DJS (05/05/2000)
#
0,30 * * * * /usr/lib/sendmail -q
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Barry S. Finkel
Electronics and Computing Technologies Division
Argonne National Laboratory Phone: +1 (630) 252-7277
9700 South Cass Avenue Facsimile:+1 (630) 252-4601
Building 222, Room D209 Internet: BSFinkel@anl.gov
Argonne, IL 60439-4828 IBMMAIL: I1004994
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