Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 00:04:56 -0400
From: Alan E <alane@geeksrus.net>
To: Gregory Neil Shapiro <gshapiro@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc: FreeBSD Stable List <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: /var/spool/{mqueue,clientmqueue} and 'mailq'
Message-ID: <20020509040456.GA68030@wwweasel.geeksrus.net>
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On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 08:33:22PM -0700, Gregory Neil Shapiro wrote:
>alane> I just can seem to find any docs that explain to me why
>
>Start with /etc/mail/README.
Indeed I did.
>alane> (1) no bounces or warnings ever get sent when stuff gets stuck in
>alane> /var/spool/clientmqueue, and
>
>Assuming you haven't turned off:
>sendmail_msp_queue_enable="YES" # Dequeue stuck clientmqueue mail (YES/NO).
>
>in /etc/rc.conf, "stuck" items should get tried every half hour. If they
>aren't getting out a bounce will be generated. But if mail can't get out,
>the bounces probably can't either.
Shouldn't I get a warning locally? Mail that's stuck there (has been
stuck there) has been because of a failed DNS lookup on the target host.
>
>alane> (3) why mailq only tells me about /var/spool/mqueue.
>
>See the mailq man page:
>
>mailq -Ac
MAILQ(1) MAILQ(1)
NAME
mailq - print the mail queue
SYNOPSIS
mailq [-v]
[alane ~/SYSCONF/usr/local/etc/apache]$ find /usr/share/man/ -name
mailq* -ls
1783570 4 -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 1153
Apr 19 20:01 /usr/share/man/man1/mailq.1.gz
1805193 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 man wheel 1005
Apr 20 16:32 /usr/share/man/cat1/mailq.1.gz
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AlanE
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