Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 21:14:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> To: Chris Byrnes <chris@JEAH.net> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail: clientmqueue directory storing massive messages, not being cleared Message-ID: <20030605211228.X90750@carver.gumbysoft.com> In-Reply-To: <0a6f01c32be1$a4b3f940$1abcd118@wi.rr.com> References: <0a6f01c32be1$a4b3f940$1abcd118@wi.rr.com>
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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. -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org
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