From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Jul 26 15:38:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A17E37B400 for ; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 15:38:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ann.skypoint.net (ann.skypoint.net [199.86.32.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C68F43E42 for ; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 15:38:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jason@skypoint.com) Received: from techlead.skypoint.com ([199.86.41.2]) by ann.skypoint.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA17250 for ; Fri, 26 Jul 2002 22:46:32 GMT Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20020726173048.00a102a0@dual03.skypoint.net> X-Sender: jason@dual03.skypoint.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 17:38:16 -0500 To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG From: Jason Woyak Subject: sendmail queue problem Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org hi all I work at a mid-sized ISP, and we've been having a problem where if mail is queued to send to a server that isnt online (or at least, isnt accepting mail), it sits and waits a long time (several minutes) for the mail message to time out, all the while /var/spool/mqueue is filling up (got up to ~5000 messages this time).. is there some sort of setting i can make so sendmail doesnt die? i've looked around about this but had no luck.. its an older freebsd machine (this particular one is 3.4-stable) running sendmail 8.10.1. any help is mucho appreciated.. thanks /|\ Jason Woyak - Skypoint Lead Technician /|\ HomePage: http://www.skypoint.com/~jason Phone: (763) 548-2615 | Cell: (612) 701-6610 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message