[aclug-L] Re: sendmail question

[Steven Saner <ssaner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Nov 11, 1999 at 11:53:10AM -0600, Jeff wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Jesse Kaufman wrote:
> 
> > ok, when i send a message while i'm offline, i get one of those
> > "couldn't send e-mail for the past hour"...  how do i queue e-mail
> > w/o that happening.... (when offline)
> 
> Well, that's the expected behavior: a warning that it couldn't send
> the email that you told it to send.  Workarounds:
> a) delete the warning
> b) postpone the message (don't send it) until you're online.
> c) hack sendmail & figure a way to extend the warning

The option in the sendmail configuration (/etc/sendmail.cf) that you
would want to hack is:

O Timeout.queuewarn=4h

The above example will send a warning message after 4 hours.

> 
> -jeff
> -- 
> Linux ... find out what you've been missing while
>           you've been rebooting NT. --Infoworld
> 

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