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Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 22:10:24 -0700
From: "Crist J . Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net>
To: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>
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Subject: Re: sysinstall DOESN'T ASK, dangerous defaults! (Was: Re: wats so  special about freeBSD?)
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On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 10:34:46AM +0200, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote:
[snip]

> email clients use sendmail to send mail.  If sendmail isn't running, it
> doesn't queue.  We'll just lose that mail to a black hole.  That isn't
> obvious.

sendmail does queue unsent mail. It is not lost. The queue can be
processed manually (or from a crontab) by running,

  $ sendmail -q

-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@alum.mit.edu


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