From owner-freebsd-stable Wed May 8 21: 2:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from wwweasel.geeksrus.net (wwweasel.geeksrus.net [64.8.210.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63E9F37B40F; Wed, 8 May 2002 21:02:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wwweasel.geeksrus.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wwweasel.geeksrus.net (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g4944vY9074730; Thu, 9 May 2002 00:04:57 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from alane@wwweasel.geeksrus.net) Received: (from alane@localhost) by wwweasel.geeksrus.net (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g4944urC074729; Thu, 9 May 2002 00:04:56 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 00:04:56 -0400 From: Alan E To: Gregory Neil Shapiro Cc: FreeBSD Stable List Subject: Re: /var/spool/{mqueue,clientmqueue} and 'mailq' Message-ID: <20020509040456.GA68030@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> References: <20020509012717.GA43918@wwweasel.geeksrus.net> <15577.60930.577722.682790@horsey.gshapiro.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <15577.60930.577722.682790@horsey.gshapiro.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i X-message-flag: Magic 8-Ball says "Outlook not so good." I'll ask it about Exchange next. Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- AlanE To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message