From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 14 8:48:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from finch-post-10.mail.demon.net (finch-post-10.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6580B15108 for ; Sat, 14 Aug 1999 08:48:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from martin@chiron-s.demon.co.uk) Received: from chiron-s.demon.co.uk ([158.152.196.202]) by finch-post-10.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 11Fg2p-000FEw-0A; Sat, 14 Aug 1999 15:48:32 +0000 Received: from localhost (martin@localhost) by chiron-s.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA00464; Sat, 14 Aug 1999 16:48:06 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from martin@chiron-s.demon.co.uk) Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 16:48:06 +0100 (BST) From: Martin Smith To: Juergen Nickelsen Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail and queuing in 3.2 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 14 Aug 1999, Juergen Nickelsen wrote: > 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. > please do let me have details, it sounds interesting, btw I looked at the exim docs and it suggests that it too does not like queuing mail many thanks in advance -- martin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message