E-mail - clients & transporters

[Holmes, Steve]

Sendmail's default behavior is to attempt immediate delivery when the mail
is initially sent.  If that is unsuccessful, then it will try again every 15
minutes until successful or when it times out.  If you're currently not
connected when finishing a piece of e-mail, then that first attempt will
simply fail without incident and remain queued till later.  The retry
interval can also be changed or eliminated completely by the command line
that invokes sendmail (most likely in your rc.inet script(s)).

When you actually go online, you could force sendmail to attempt delivery of
its entire queue; if I remember right, you would say 'sendmail -q' to do
this.

-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher Moore [mailto:w1gm at sdf.lonestar.org]
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 6:39 AM
To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca
Subject: RE: E-mail - clients & transporters


Steve,
While on the topic of sendmail, I have a dial-up account, and I need to be
connected in order for sendmail to send messages from pine.  Is there a
way to configure sendmail to queue the messages and send them when I next
connect?
Chris

73, Chris w1gm at sdf.lonestar.org
SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org



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