Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 00:58:32 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: David Allen <the.real.david.allen@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail, queue intervals and ETRN Message-ID: <20100819055832.GA73221@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimxUc-WY6OT7PU8Mba734X9GTSe-kZ3sFhJkTmK@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTimxUc-WY6OT7PU8Mba734X9GTSe-kZ3sFhJkTmK@mail.gmail.com>
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In the last episode (Aug 18), David Allen said: > I've had the following setup at home for a number of years: > > mailhub <----> smarthost <---> intarwebs > > Everything works as intended, of course, but I'd like to change the setup > to accomodate the mailhub host being powered off at night. After it's > restarted in the morning (or whenever), the mailhub should issue an ETRN > command for any queued mail, and any changes made to the smarthost's > configuration the night before are undone. > > Is there a simple answer to this? What I'm after is a solution that > avoids MAILER DAEMON messages, etc. as a result of the mailhub host being > unavailable. Easiest way would be to raise the warning timeout on your smarthost to be longer than your expected poweroff duration. define(`confTO_QUEUEWARN', `1d')dnl -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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