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Date:      Thu, 12 Oct 2000 09:46:08 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com>
Cc:        John Hay <jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za>, jruigrok@via-net-works.nl (Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven), dot@dotat.at (Tony Finch), jhb@FreeBSD.org (John Baldwin), DougB@gorean.org (Doug Barton), cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, imp@village.org (Warner Losh), dillon@earth.backplane.com (Matt Dillon)
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc inetd.conf 
Message-ID:  <91985.971336768@critter>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 12 Oct 2000 00:41:48 PDT." <727.971336508@winston.osd.bsdi.com> 

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In message <727.971336508@winston.osd.bsdi.com>, Jordan Hubbard writes:
>> I haven't seen patches go in that make the daily, weekly and monthly
>> emails do that. :-)
>
>Hmmm?  They just pipe it to mail(1) which hands it off to an
>invocation of sendmail (not running as a daemon) to deliver it.
>
>The USWest FreeBSD boxes don't run sendmail at all yet send me
>email regularly. :)

Right, but if immediate delivery fails, it is queued for later
transmission, and if you have no sendmails attending to the queue...

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