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Date:      Wed, 7 Mar 2007 11:59:56 +0200
From:      Jonathan McKeown <jonathan@hst.org.za>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        kk kumar <nv.kiran.kumar@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: reprocess mails in sendmail
Message-ID:  <200703071159.57075.jonathan@hst.org.za>
In-Reply-To: <7772d7120703062128v5e9e546auec83e300f741154d@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <7772d7120703062128v5e9e546auec83e300f741154d@mail.gmail.com>

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On Wednesday 07 March 2007 07:28, kk kumar wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Do you need to include specific commands to periodically process the queue
> with sendmail?  With sendmail I would explicitly (via cron) rerun queue
> processing every 30 minutes or so. Is there any better method to do this in
> sendmail itself. The reason for this question is that some of the mails
> which needs to be delivered to another mail server was not reachable and
> this mail was not processed for 4 days. but when i manually flush the queue
> i am able to send the mail to the RCPT mail server. Any fields i need to
> change in Sendmail for solving this problem.

This should be happening automatically unless you've changed the startup flags 
from the defaults in /etc/defaults/rc.conf.

Read the manpage for rc.sendmail(8). It lists the various options available 
for starting sendmail. The default values for these settings are 
in /etc/defaults/rc.conf. Unless you've changed them in /etc/rc.conf, every 
set of flags contains -q30m which runs the queue every 30 minutes.

Jonathan



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