From: Barry Finkel (b19141@ACHILLES.CTD.ANL.GOV)
Date: Thu Dec 11 2003 - 12:49:33 EST
>The problem here is that there will be no retries for failures and failed
>mail will stay queued.
>
>A better solution is to run sendmail without the "-bd" as such:
>
>/usr/sbin/sendmail -q1m
>
>This way it works the queues but does not accept connections on port 25.
>
>This assumes you only want to send mail and not receive.
We run this root cron on our servers that are not mail hosts and as
such do not have sendmail running:
0 * * * * /usr/lib/sendmail -q
This will start sendmail every hour to deliver any outbound mail that
may be queued from a previous failed attempt.
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Barry S. Finkel
Computing and Instrumentation Solutions 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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