From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 29 13:45:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA24601 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 13:45:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA24595 for ; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 13:45:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA13212; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 13:45:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 13:45:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Ugo Paternostro cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DNS Cache+MX+SendMail = Host not found... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, Ugo Paternostro wrote: > On 23-Apr-98 Doug White wrote about "Re: DNS Cache+MX+SendMail = Host not > found...": > > Suggestion: Set up sendmail to always queue messages, then use `sendmail > > -q' when you get connected to clean the queue out. The name of the > > Isn't there a way to avoid that? I know that solution would work, *BUT* > [you know, I'm very hard to please] if I send a message while I'm connected to > my ISP, sendmail will queue it without ever try to send it out, so it will not > leave the server until I force a sendmail -q (or my cron does a poll at 02:30 > AM). I suppose you could swap over your sendmail.cfg and kill -HUP sendmail when you connected. Beyond that I'm out of ideas Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message