On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> Don't start sendmail as a daemon. Have your client (pine / netscape /
> mutt) call sendmail from the commandline (pine does sendmail -bs, mutt
> uses sendmail -oi -oem -f).
I use sendmail for fetchmail. rather than tell fetchmail to use
procmail directly... I've configured sendmail to return a 550 on certain
addresses which won't happen if I go directly to procmail.
> Have cronjobs / ip-up.local etc flush the sendmail queue at periodic
> intervals.
this is done. 2 minutes when online, 1 day when offline.
> Setting confCON_EXPENSIVE makes sure mail just gets queued up on your
> end instead of being delivered immediately.
done
> Finally, turn off local dns lookups and handoff mail directly to your
> smarthost (possibly using AUTH) - that speeds up movement of mail
done. although there are some hosts for which I have to deliver
directly because vsnl won't accept my alternate envelope header, and the
other host won't accept my vsnl envelope header.
Philip
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