Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 20:08:55 -0700 From: Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail 8.12 structure Message-ID: <f05111b7fb99f1bd58564@[10.0.1.90]> In-Reply-To: <20020906085719.GC34657@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> References: <20020604180503.A29935@seekingfire.com> <20020604172401.A68777@xor.obsecurity.org> <f05111b59b99defefeed4@[10.0.1.90]> <20020906085719.GC34657@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi>
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>With sendmail-8.12.x, sendmail functionality has been divided between >two processes: > > sm-mta: SendMail Mail Transmission Agent, which is responsible for > receiving messages from other machines or sending them off to > other machines or, ultimately, handing the messages off to the > local delivery agent. > > sm-msp: SendMail Mail Submission Process, which is the process > that mail user agents (mail, mutt, pine, etc) use to inject a new > message into the system. > >These settings from /etc/defaults/make.conf control the send-only >sendmail setup: > > sendmail_outbound_enable="YES" # Dequeue stuck mail (YES/NO). > sendmail_outbound_flags="-L sm-queue -q30m" # Flags to sendmail >(outbound only) > sendmail_msp_queue_enable="YES" # Dequeue stuck clientmqueue >mail (YES/NO). > sendmail_msp_queue_flags="-L sm-msp-queue -Ac -q30m" > # Flags for sendmail_msp_queue daemon. Thanks. However, some of it seems a bit fuzzy still. There are 2 queues, the clientqueue and the mail queue. Using the names from the rc.conf file for the processes, the MUA will place outbound or local mail in the client queue. I believe that outbound then tries to move the mail to the mail queue so sm-mta can deliver it either locally or external. However, sm-msp-queue also seems to do the same function. Obviously I am missing something on this. -- -- Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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