On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 01:30:21PM -0500, mike hagerty wrote:
> What process or processes to I have to restart in order to get qmail to
> recognize a change in
> /var/qmail/control/queuelifetime
> I am running qmail with ldap on solaris. (back off Henning ;) )
$ man qmail-control
[ ... ]
control default used by
[ ... ]
queuelifetime 604800 qmail-send
[ ... ]
You have to restart qmail-send (i.e. qmail, not qmail-smtpd), as
$ man qmail-send
[ ... ]
CONTROL FILES
WARNING: qmail-send reads its control files only when it
starts. If you change the control files, you must stop
and restart qmail-send. Exception: If qmail-send receives
a HUP signal, it will reread locals and virtualdomains.
[ ... ]
> Also is 48 hours a reasonable time to keep mail in queue?
Depends on your setup. We do backup MX for customers that turn their
mailservers off during weekends. Thus 48 hours would be too short in OUR
environment. I personally wouldn't make it shorter than at least 4 days.
If you have a setup like ours you may want to stay with the default
(604800 seconds = 7 days) taking in account that you have e.g.
Sat, Sun, Xmas eve, Xmas holiday 1, Xmas holiday 2 (in Germany)
that would make at least 5.5 days, where some of our customers would have
their mailservers down.
\Maex
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