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, -- # $Id: .signature,v 1.12 1995/08/14 12:10:54 piero Exp $ Piero Serini Via Giambologna, 1 <Piero@Free.IT> I 20136 Milano - ITALY
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