From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 8 00:02:08 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA29707 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 00:02:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA29702 for ; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 00:02:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id SAA26729; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 18:31:49 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.2/8.9.0) id SAA48508; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 18:31:49 +1030 (CST) Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 18:31:49 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Mark Ovens Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help with sending a PR Message-ID: <19990208183148.H86778@freebie.lemis.com> References: <36BC8418.F90E22AA@uk.radan.com> <36BCFCE6.2A48575A@uk.radan.com> <19990207151411.A86778@freebie.lemis.com> <36BE1A19.E21D508D@uk.radan.com> <19990208105057.A1021@corp.au.triax.com> <19990208011624.D547@localhost> <19990208130041.Y86778@freebie.lemis.com> <36BE974A.2BD196EE@uk.radan.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <36BE974A.2BD196EE@uk.radan.com>; from Mark Ovens on Mon, Feb 08, 1999 at 07:50:34AM +0000 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday, 8 February 1999 at 7:50:34 +0000, Mark Ovens wrote: > Greg Lehey wrote: >> >> On Monday, 8 February 1999 at 1:16:24 +0000, Radan login wrote: >>> I've changed it, started ``sendmail -bd'', so >>> I'm going to see if it sends this message. >> >> You'll want to run the queue from time to time. Otherwise if you >> can't deliver a message the first time (for example, due to network >> congestion or because the other end isn't responding), you'll never >> get it sent. Try: >> >> sendmail -bd -q30m >> > > IIRC, it is suggested in the doce for user ppp to _remove_ ``-q30m'' > as there is not a permanent connection (I'll re-read it to check). Ah, yes, sorry. > As someone else suggested, I added ``sendmail -q'' to > /etc/ppp/ppp.linkup, so any mail that couldn't be sent immediately > will go the next time I connect. Correct. I retract my advice. >> This will run the queue every 30 minutes. > > I'm rarely connected for more than 2 or 3 minutes. They're real bloodsuckers down your way, are they? Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message