On Sat, 2007-02-17 at 11:41 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > I suppose I can't speak for everyone, but in this century if my > computer couldn't complete a mail delivery within the several-day > default sendmail timeout, I probably wouldn't choose it to run as an > internet mail server. I set one up precisely for that reason. It was a mostly off-line system. Running a central server meant that when it was on-line it'd get everyone's mail, and send what was possible. When it was off-line users could read whatever mail was waiting for them, and send off a reply, and it'd be sent at the first time possible. On the other hand, if we didn't have a SMTP server, they wouldn't be able to send anything, at all, while the network was off-line. It did the job rather well, but sendmail needed tweaking for the timeout periods. -- (This box runs FC6, my others run FC4 & FC5, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
