Uwe, I have been using sendmail for 14 years, and the only mail I have lost has been email I sent to the bit-bucket using procmail as a local mailer.
Back on 18 January, John Beck from Sun wrote you a nice reply (posted at the bottom of this message), offering help and requesting more details. I have not seen those details on this list. Did you share those details privately? If not, why not post some configurations and other details of your environment so list members can help. Jerry K Uwe Dippel wrote: > Tim, > > all this is very well possible. I suggest to wait until this issue is > resolved, explained, or whatnot. > As long as I can make a mail disappear at will by disconnecting the recipient MTA for more than 15 minutes using the default configuration with smarthost enabled, I felt that an information was timely. > That's all for now, > > Uwe ------------------------------------------------ > Uwe> ... arguements on postfix versus sendmail... > Uwe> ... I have lost incoming mail ... > Uwe> ... OpenSolaris does not resend the mail when the > Uwe> receiving MTA is unavailable! > > I don't want to get into a religious argument about MTAs, but as the > sole development engineer for sendmail at Sun for the past 12+ years, > I take exception to the technical charge that sendmail fails to retry. > The default [Open]Solaris sendmail configuration has a value of 5 days > for the timeout.queuereturn value. Until then, sendmail will try to > send queued messages every queue interval, which is 15 minutes by default. > I have been running sendmail on the mail servers for my personal domains > and on several important servers at Sun for those entire 12+ years and > the only time I ever recall losing mail was when the underlying disk > hardware failed, back in the days before ZFS. > > If you want to provide details in an effort to find the problem(s) in > a sendmail configuration, please send them to me privately, then one of > us can post a follow-up to the list once we have resolved everything. > > -- John _______________________________________________ sysadmin-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/sysadmin-discuss
