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Date:      Fri, 24 Nov 1995 01:03:44 +0100 (MET)
From:      Piero Serini <piero@strider.ibenet.it>
To:        maral@webnet.com.au (Peter Marelas)
Cc:        rpt@miles.sso.loral.com, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: holding mail for delayed delivery??
Message-ID:  <199511240003.BAA03763@strider.ibenet.it>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.91.951122234810.20608A-100000@iis> from "Peter Marelas" at Nov 22, 95 11:49:01 pm

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Hello.

Quoting from Peter Marelas (Wed Nov 22 13:49:01 1995):
> >   What do I have to do to the sendmail.cf on the permanent machine so 
> > that it will hold my mail until I link in next time, as opposed to 
> > bouncing it back to the sender as undeliverable?
> > 
> 
> Its got nothing to do with sendmail, it has to do with DNS and MX records.
> Speak to your service provider.

It's partially incorrect. Actually, there is a variable to
set up in sendmail.cf to specify the amount of time sendmail
will try to send a mail before a) returning a warning, and
b) deleting it from the queue. See 

# default message timeout interval
OT7d/10h


Bye,
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Piero Serini                                            Via Giambologna, 1 
<Piero@Free.IT>                                     I 20136 Milano - ITALY



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