Michael Perry wrote:
>
> Narrowed down some email issues. Now anyone know why email sent through
> localhost would queue instead of going out immediately? I checked how
> sendmail is configured in yast and it has switches for sendmail -bd
> -q30m -om. This means as far as I know to run in background daemon
> mode, to queue email for 30 minutes, and to... I dont know what -om
> means. But its academic because sendmail does not send the email after
> its queued. When suse boots, where does sendmail get its args from?
> It appears that it does not start in daemon mode since it is not
> intercepting email that has queued for 30 mins per the argumeent above.
> Does one have to still sendmail -q either in a crontab or manually?
> Even running sendmail in yast with no args queues messages sent from
> netscape.
>
Hello Michael,
roughly remembering your previous mails, I suppose, you want to store
your mail locally and deliver it to your ISP later (at a fixed time,
etc.)
There is an article in the SDB (search for sendmail):
http://localhost/support-db/sdb_e/smt_sendmail.html
that describes the procedure. You need to alter a few entrys in
rc.config:
marvin:/home/brauki # cat /etc/rc.config|grep MAIL
MAIL_REPORTS_TO="root"
SENDMAIL_TYPE="yes"
SENDMAIL_SMARTHOST="mail.cityweb.de"
#^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ your ISP's server
SENDMAIL_LOCALHOST="localhost"
SENDMAIL_RELAY=""
SENDMAIL_ARGS="-bd -om"
SENDMAIL_EXPENSIVE="yes"
# you probably want to enable this on a SENDMAIL_EXPENSIVE system
SENDMAIL_NOCANONIFY="yes"
btw. this is were sendmail gets it's args from. Look at *any* script in
/sbin/init.d. You'll always find a ". /etc/rc.config" in there, that
sets the variables for the script. the relevant var's are later used in
the script.
for "emergencys" you'll find "alternetive" settings as well.
Juergen
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