I'm sure this isn't an original question, but never mind...
Regarding the exim config (using woody, stable):
Ok, so if I'm offline and I send an email, it gets queued and waits patiently until I connect. Various addresses are re-written so that it can send properly. But then if it's on the queue for a long time (which often happens), exim sends a reminder email to the sender. Exactly which message headers need to be re-written so that a) there is no problem sending the message, but b) these reminder messages get sent to the localhost address and not the external address?
what I do on my laptop is change the retry settings so that exim only tries to redeliver once an hour if not connected. I *think* what you want to do is set the from: address to be [EMAIL PROTECTED], and your reply-to: to be [EMAIL PROTECTED], then make sure that yourlaptop.yourdomain is in local_domains.
Also, the exim daemon usually pauses for about 5-10 seconds, for example when I type 'mailq'. Is this something to do with the /etc/hosts file or not? It's not a major problem of course, but any comments would be welcome.
Well, for this case, `man exim` says:
If Exim is called under the name mailq, it behaves as if the
option -bp were present before any other options. This is for
compatibility with some systems that contain a command of that
name in one of the standard libraries, symbolically linked to
/usr/lib/sendmail....and then...
-bp List the contents of the mail queue on the current output. If the -bp option is followed by a list of message ids, then just those messages are listed. By default this option may only be used by an admin user. The queue_list_requires_admin option can be set false to allow any user to see the queue.
Each message on the queue is displayed as in the
following example: 25m 2.9K 0t5C6f-0000c8-00 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
land.fict.book>
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<other addresses> The first line contains the amount of time the mes�
sage has been on the queue (in this case 25 min�
utes), the size of the message (2.9K), the unique
identifier for the message, and the message sender,
as contained in the envelope. If the message is a
delivery error message, the sender address is
empty, and appears as <>. If the message is frozen
(attempts to deliver it are suspended) then the
text '*** frozen ***' is displayed at the end of
this line. The recipients of the message (taken from the enve�
lope, not the headers) are displayed on subsequent
lines. Those addresses to which the message has
already been delivered are marked with the letter
D. If an original address gets expanded into sev�
eral addresses via an alias or forward file, the
original is displayed with a 'D' only when deliver�
ies for all of its child addresses are completed.I'd suspect that if you had a large mail queue, that it'd have to scan the whole thing before reporting what's on it.
hope this was helpful,
cheers
glen
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