From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 7 13:51:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA15276 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 7 Jan 1998 13:51:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from citytel1.citytel.net (root@citytel1.citytel.net [204.244.99.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA15264 for ; Wed, 7 Jan 1998 13:51:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kwoody@citytel.net) Received: from citytel.net (citytelprct15.citytel.net [204.244.99.91]) by citytel1.citytel.net (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA26526; Wed, 7 Jan 1998 13:49:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from mybsd.net (mybsd.net [192.168.0.2]) by citytel.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA05350; Wed, 7 Jan 1998 13:33:54 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 13:33:54 -0800 (PST) From: Kwoody X-Sender: kwoody@mybsd.net To: Glenn Johnson cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: mail question. In-Reply-To: <199801070523.XAA04069@gforce.bellsouth.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, Glenn Johnson wrote: > O DeliveryMode=background > Change this to: > > O DeliveryMode=deferred Acutally I put in queue instead of deferred. Which is the proper syntax? > In /etc/rc.conf, you will want your sendmail_flags line to read: > > sendmail_flags="-bd" Already been done ages ago. I'm still 2.1.7 though and use a sysconfig. > To have your mail delivered after fetching it you could use the postconnect > command of fetchmail in your .fetchmailrc,. ie., > > postconnect "/usr/sbin/sendmail -q" > I happens to use fetchmail, thanks for the tidbit. I jsut setup fetchmail to work then have not looked at it again. I have just used sendmail -q after fetchmail in a little 3 line script I use to get mail. Thanks! Keith