From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 16 2:52:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nexus.plymovent.se (nexus.plymovent.se [212.247.77.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4835150C1 for ; Mon, 16 Aug 1999 02:51:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from thomas.uhrfelt@plymovent.se) Received: from tu ([192.168.1.21]) by nexus.plymovent.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA11230; Mon, 16 Aug 1999 12:01:25 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from thomas.uhrfelt@plymovent.se) From: "Thomas Uhrfelt" To: "Steven Fletcher" Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" Subject: RE: Sendmail retries Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 11:52:09 +0200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <37b7bfec.281394@smtp.shellnet.co.uk> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message