From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 6 20:14: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE4EB37B400 for ; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 20:14:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zoon.lafn.org (zoon.lafn.org [206.117.18.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 094C443E77 for ; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 20:14:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bc979@lafn.org) Received: from [10.0.1.90] (66-81-22-48-modem.o1.com [66.81.22.48]) by zoon.lafn.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g873Dvm28283; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 20:13:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bc979@lafn.org) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: bc979@mail.lafn.org Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20020906085719.GC34657@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> References: <20020604180503.A29935@seekingfire.com> <20020604172401.A68777@xor.obsecurity.org> <20020906085719.GC34657@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 20:08:55 -0700 To: Matthew Seaman From: Doug Hardie Subject: Re: sendmail 8.12 structure Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >With sendmail-8.12.x, sendmail functionality has been divided between >two processes: > > sm-mta: SendMail Mail Transmission Agent, which is responsible for > receiving messages from other machines or sending them off to > other machines or, ultimately, handing the messages off to the > local delivery agent. > > sm-msp: SendMail Mail Submission Process, which is the process > that mail user agents (mail, mutt, pine, etc) use to inject a new > message into the system. > >These settings from /etc/defaults/make.conf control the send-only >sendmail setup: > > sendmail_outbound_enable="YES" # Dequeue stuck mail (YES/NO). > sendmail_outbound_flags="-L sm-queue -q30m" # Flags to sendmail >(outbound only) > sendmail_msp_queue_enable="YES" # Dequeue stuck clientmqueue >mail (YES/NO). > sendmail_msp_queue_flags="-L sm-msp-queue -Ac -q30m" > # Flags for sendmail_msp_queue daemon. Thanks. However, some of it seems a bit fuzzy still. There are 2 queues, the clientqueue and the mail queue. Using the names from the rc.conf file for the processes, the MUA will place outbound or local mail in the client queue. I believe that outbound then tries to move the mail to the mail queue so sm-mta can deliver it either locally or external. However, sm-msp-queue also seems to do the same function. Obviously I am missing something on this. -- -- Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message