Mithun Bhattacharya rearranged electrons thusly:

> I am not sure of this but I do believe just updating the SMTPROUTES file
> would do the trick in qmail. It is read by qmail-remote which is spawned
> for every email requiring a remote delivery.. So I dont think it would

This is correct in qmail.  Sendmail requires a HUP (not a restart actually)
as the config file is monolithic - everything goes into sendmail.cf

# kill -HUP `head -n1 /var/run/sendmail.pid`

as a matter of fact.

        -s

> need a restart of the qmail system. Even in case qmail needed to re read
> it's configuration all it is needed is to send a HUP to qmail-send. No
> need to bring down the SMTP server too :).

-- 
Suresh Ramasubramanian  <-->  mallet <at> efn <dot> org
EMail Sturmbannfuhrer, Lower Middle Class Unix Sysadmin


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