Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 12:57:33 +0000 From: Scott Mitchell <scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> To: Mats Dufberg <dufberg@sunet.se>, Quintin Oliver <quintin@smlt.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail and NoDNS. Message-ID: <19981127125733.N18485@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSU.4.02A.9811271130510.23574-100000@bar.pilsnet.sunet.se>; from Mats Dufberg on Fri, Nov 27, 1998 at 11:35:12AM %2B0100 References: <Pine.LNX.3.96.981127105050.47A-100000@orion.smlt.com> <Pine.GSU.4.02A.9811271130510.23574-100000@bar.pilsnet.sunet.se>
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On Fri, Nov 27, 1998 at 11:35:12AM +0100, Mats Dufberg wrote: > On Fri, 27 Nov 1998, Quintin Oliver wrote: > > > Basically the server act's as a PPP Router and mailserver, the problem we > > are having is whenever they send an email to a non-local address Sendmail > > attemps to connect to us and stalls OutLook express on there machines due > > to the 30 second connect waiting time. > > > > I've heard on some of the Linux lists that people have setup Sendmail to > > work in the same manner as before expect it would queue the mail, and only > > send it when you do a `sendmail -q' > > Start the sendmail daemon with > > sendmail -bd -Odeliverymode=d -q1h > > or > > sendmail -bd -Odeliverymode=d > > > In the last case you'll have to process the queue by some other mechanism. > This may not be important in your case, but IIRC the above solution will also hold local mail until the next queue run. An alternative is to configure the SMTP mailer to be 'expensive' -- sendmail will then queue external mail but deliver local stuff immediately. You might also need to convince sendmail not to do DNS lookups when it queues messages. I unfortunately can't remember the exact details (and the machine with this setup is not accessible from here...). You should be able to find all this on www.sendmail.org or the FreeBSD mail archives though. HTH, Scott. -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID |"If I can't have my coffee, I'm just <scott@dcs.qmw.ac.uk> | 0x54B171B9 | like a dried up piece of roast goat" QMW College, London, UK | 0xAA775B8B | -- J. S. Bach. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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