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From: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
To: Chris Byrnes <chris@JEAH.net>
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Subject: Re: sendmail:  clientmqueue directory storing massive messages, not
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On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, Chris Byrnes wrote:

> Can you please explain the difference between /var/spool/clientmqueue and
> /var/spool/mqueue and why one seems to be taken care of regularly, but the
> other had 42,000 unsent messages?  When I start sendmail, I've always just
> run "/usr/sbin/sendmail -bd -q60m -h10 -R full".  Do I need to do something
> differently?

This allows the local system to send mail normally (i.e., store mail for
retry in cases where it could not be immediately sent) but yet not run a
persistent listening sendmail daemon. This was added in the sendmail 8.12
range and has been active on FreeBSD since the early 4.X days.  Even if
you had

sendmail_enable="NO"

in rc.conf, the clientmqueue scanner should have started up. You had to
make it

sendmail_enable="NONE"

to completely shut it off.

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