From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 14 7:24:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from www.inx.de (www.inx.de [195.21.255.251]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BDF914C99 for ; Sat, 14 Aug 1999 07:24:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jnickelsen@acm.org) Received: from n33-74.berlin.snafu.de ([195.21.33.74] helo=goting.jn.berlin.snafu.de) by www.inx.de with esmtp (Exim 3.02 #1) id 11FejJ-0006Ms-00; Sat, 14 Aug 1999 16:24:18 +0200 Received: by goting.jn.berlin.snafu.de (Postfix, from userid 100) id 6829812A; Sat, 14 Aug 1999 13:10:08 +0200 (CEST) To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Martin Smith Subject: Re: sendmail and queuing in 3.2 References: <19990813164130.D14699@lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk> From: Juergen Nickelsen Date: 14 Aug 1999 13:10:07 +0200 In-Reply-To: Ben Smithurst's message of "Fri, 13 Aug 1999 16:41:30 +0100" Message-ID: Lines: 27 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ben Smithurst writes: > Martin Smith wrote: > > > I have just installed 3.2, my only major problem is that > > sendmail wants to check the mx records of my recipients instead > > of just queuing the messages when I am off line, can someone > > point me in the right direction just to get sendmail to queue my > > mail before I go online. flags to sendmail in > > /etc/defaults/rc.conf are standard -bd -q30m > > You could try Exim :-) If you want to stick with Sendmail (ugh..), > then try this in your mc file: You could try Postfix. :-) Well, at least I did, and I found Postfix *much* easier to install, understand, and configure than sendmail. I had a configuration for dial-up and a little address rewriting running in two hours, including compiling, installing, and reading the necessary documentation. *And* I felt (and still feel :-) that I actually understood what I had done. (Also under 3.2.) If you are interested in the details, contact me. -- Juergen Nickelsen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message