Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 23:44:48 -0600 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu Cc: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>, Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysinstall DOESN'T ASK, dangerous defaults! (Was: Re: wats so special about freeBSD?) Message-ID: <39CD94D0.693C453C@softweyr.com> References: <99016.969437392@winston.osd.bsdi.com> <cjclark@reflexnet.net> <99016.969437392@winston.osd.bsdi.com> <20000920125405.D22272@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20000921113652.053d4960@localhost> <20000921210521.A17973@mithrandr.moria.org> <39CA8E45.7DA45048@softweyr.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20000921182152.046d6ee0@localhost> <20000922103446.A25222@mithrandr.moria.org> <20000922221024.F367@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com>
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"Crist J . Clark" wrote:
>
> On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 10:34:46AM +0200, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote:
> [snip]
>
> > email clients use sendmail to send mail. If sendmail isn't running, it
> > doesn't queue. We'll just lose that mail to a black hole. That isn't
> > obvious.
>
> sendmail does queue unsent mail. It is not lost. The queue can be
> processed manually (or from a crontab) by running,
>
> $ sendmail -q
And periodically, without accepting incoming mail, with -q30m.
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