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Date:      Mon, 16 Aug 1999 11:52:09 +0200
From:      "Thomas Uhrfelt" <thomas.uhrfelt@plymovent.se>
To:        "Steven Fletcher" <flec@flec.co.uk>
Cc:        "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: Sendmail retries
Message-ID:  <LOBBJNJHKFOGCKJFKEKBIEIACEAA.thomas.uhrfelt@plymovent.se>
In-Reply-To: <37b7bfec.281394@smtp.shellnet.co.uk>

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Well, it doesnt seem to do it every 30 minutes either.. for example if I got
a hostname lookup error in the queue due to the internet failure, the mail
doesnt seem to get delivered (even if the link is up again) until I do a
sendmail -q.

> On Mon, 16 Aug 1999 09:27:14 +0200, you wrote:
>
> >sendmail so it retries to send failed deliveries more often,
> perhaps every
> >10 minutes or so? Any ideas on how to do this?
>
> Start sendmail with with the option "-q10m" then.
> If you look in your /etc/rc.conf or /etc/defaults/rc.conf, you'll see
> it's probably set to be -q30m.
>
> -flec
> flec@flec.co.uk
>



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