Date: 14 Aug 1999 13:10:07 +0200 From: Juergen Nickelsen <jnickelsen@acm.org> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Martin Smith <martin@chiron-s.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: sendmail and queuing in 3.2 Message-ID: <x7pv0qwrcg.fsf@goting.jn.berlin.snafu.de> In-Reply-To: Ben Smithurst's message of "Fri, 13 Aug 1999 16:41:30 %2B0100" References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908121106570.316-100000@nohow.demon.co.uk> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908130911340.238-100000@chiron-s.demon.co.uk> <19990813164130.D14699@lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk>
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Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> 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
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