From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 7 18:30:49 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA27796 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 7 Feb 1999 18:30:49 -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 SAA27785 for ; Sun, 7 Feb 1999 18:30:45 -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 NAA25758; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 13:00:42 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.2/8.9.0) id NAA47341; Mon, 8 Feb 1999 13:00:41 +1030 (CST) Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 13:00:41 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Radan login Cc: jim@corp.au.triax.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help with sending a PR Message-ID: <19990208130041.Y86778@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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <19990208011624.D547@localhost>; from Radan login on Mon, Feb 08, 1999 at 01:16:24AM +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 1:16:24 +0000, Radan login wrote: > On Mon, Feb 08, 1999 at 10:50:57AM +1100, Jim Mock wrote: >> Make sure it's running. It'll take care of the sending by itself. >> Unless you've disabled it, it starts on bootup from /etc/rc.conf. >> Look for this part.. >> >> sendmail_enable="YES" # Run the sendmail daemon (or NO). >> sendmail_flags="-bd -q15m" # -bd is pretty mandatory. >> > > Ah, sendmail_enable was set to "NO" (IIRC that is advised in the docs > for settin g up ppp). 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 This will run the queue every 30 minutes. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html 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