Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 13:00:41 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Radan login <radan@uk.radan.com> Cc: jim@corp.au.triax.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help with sending a PR Message-ID: <19990208130041.Y86778@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19990208011624.D547@localhost>; from Radan login on Mon, Feb 08, 1999 at 01:16:24AM %2B0000 References: <36BC8418.F90E22AA@uk.radan.com> <xzp3e4jl5ay.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <36BCFCE6.2A48575A@uk.radan.com> <19990207151411.A86778@freebie.lemis.com> <36BE1A19.E21D508D@uk.radan.com> <19990208105057.A1021@corp.au.triax.com> <19990208011624.D547@localhost>
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On Monday, 8 February 1999 at 1:16:24 +0000, Radan login wrote: > On Mon, Feb 08, 1999 at 10:50:57AM +1100, Jim Mock wrote: >> Make sure it's running. It'll take care of the sending by itself. >> Unless you've disabled it, it starts on bootup from /etc/rc.conf. >> Look for this part.. >> >> sendmail_enable="YES" # Run the sendmail daemon (or NO). >> sendmail_flags="-bd -q15m" # -bd is pretty mandatory. >> > > Ah, sendmail_enable was set to "NO" (IIRC that is advised in the docs > for settin g up ppp). I've changed it, started ``sendmail -bd'', so > I'm going to see if it sends this message. You'll want to run the queue from time to time. Otherwise if you can't deliver a message the first time (for example, due to network congestion or because the other end isn't responding), you'll never get it sent. Try: sendmail -bd -q30m This will run the queue every 30 minutes. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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