Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 11:59:56 +0200 From: Jonathan McKeown <jonathan@hst.org.za> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: kk kumar <nv.kiran.kumar@gmail.com> Subject: Re: reprocess mails in sendmail Message-ID: <200703071159.57075.jonathan@hst.org.za> In-Reply-To: <7772d7120703062128v5e9e546auec83e300f741154d@mail.gmail.com> References: <7772d7120703062128v5e9e546auec83e300f741154d@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wednesday 07 March 2007 07:28, kk kumar wrote: > Hi all, > > Do you need to include specific commands to periodically process the queue > with sendmail? With sendmail I would explicitly (via cron) rerun queue > processing every 30 minutes or so. Is there any better method to do this in > sendmail itself. The reason for this question is that some of the mails > which needs to be delivered to another mail server was not reachable and > this mail was not processed for 4 days. but when i manually flush the queue > i am able to send the mail to the RCPT mail server. Any fields i need to > change in Sendmail for solving this problem. This should be happening automatically unless you've changed the startup flags from the defaults in /etc/defaults/rc.conf. Read the manpage for rc.sendmail(8). It lists the various options available for starting sendmail. The default values for these settings are in /etc/defaults/rc.conf. Unless you've changed them in /etc/rc.conf, every set of flags contains -q30m which runs the queue every 30 minutes. Jonathan
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