From owner-cvs-all Thu Oct 12 1: 0:58 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from netplex.com.au (adsl-64-163-195-99.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [64.163.195.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 371EB37B503; Thu, 12 Oct 2000 01:00:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from netplex.com.au (peter@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by netplex.com.au (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e9C7xaG31208; Thu, 12 Oct 2000 00:59:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Message-Id: <200010120759.e9C7xaG31208@netplex.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Jordan Hubbard Cc: John Hay , 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 In-Reply-To: <727.971336508@winston.osd.bsdi.com> Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 00:59:36 -0700 From: Peter Wemm Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jordan Hubbard wrote: > > 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. :) And if the link to freebsd.org or bsdi was down right at the moment that the USWest machines tried to send email, it gets dropped into the mailq for retry later. In fact, mail calls sendmail, and sendmail queues it up on disk *first* before trying to initiate sending. If anything at all goes wrong, it stays on disk for retry. If delivery was successful, it gets unlinked. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message