From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 23 16:20:47 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id QAA06178 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 23 Nov 1995 16:20:47 -0800 Received: from mail.barrnet.net (mail.barrnet.net [131.119.246.7]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA05929 for ; Thu, 23 Nov 1995 16:19:10 -0800 Received: from magic.winnet.net ([204.215.2.2]) by mail.barrnet.net (8.7.1/MAIL-RELAY-LEN) with SMTP id QAA03214 for ; Thu, 23 Nov 1995 16:12:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from strider.ibenet.it (root@strider.ibenet.it [194.179.130.1]) by magic.winnet.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id TAA18570; Thu, 23 Nov 1995 19:07:09 -0500 Received: (from piero@localhost) by strider.ibenet.it (8.6.12/8.6.12) id BAA03763; Fri, 24 Nov 1995 01:03:44 +0100 From: Piero Serini Message-Id: <199511240003.BAA03763@strider.ibenet.it> Subject: Re: holding mail for delayed delivery?? To: maral@webnet.com.au (Peter Marelas) Date: Fri, 24 Nov 1995 01:03:44 +0100 (MET) Cc: rpt@miles.sso.loral.com, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Peter Marelas" at Nov 22, 95 11:49:01 pm Reply-To: piero@Strider.IBENet.IT@winnet.net Operating-System: FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 X-Phone-Number: +39 (2) 58113562 X-NCC-RegID: it.ibenet X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Hello. Quoting from Peter Marelas (Wed Nov 22 13:49:01 1995): > > What do I have to do to the sendmail.cf on the permanent machine so > > that it will hold my mail until I link in next time, as opposed to > > bouncing it back to the sender as undeliverable? > > > > Its got nothing to do with sendmail, it has to do with DNS and MX records. > Speak to your service provider. It's partially incorrect. Actually, there is a variable to set up in sendmail.cf to specify the amount of time sendmail will try to send a mail before a) returning a warning, and b) deleting it from the queue. See # default message timeout interval OT7d/10h Bye, -- # $Id: .signature,v 1.12 1995/08/14 12:10:54 piero Exp $ Piero Serini Via Giambologna, 1 I 20136 Milano - ITALY