That only tells you when it hasn't been sent for 4 hours and sends you a warning note back. My boss moaned endlessly about it that's how I know :-) I pointed out it was only telling him it hadn't gone but was still waiting in the queue to go when it was able to. That was when we were on dial-up now the queue gets processed every 5 minutes and I don't have that problem. I'm moving the server over to RedHat 9 but use a script of my own to process the mail with a sendmail -q in there. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Kindley" <ckindley@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, May 26, 2003 7:50 AM Subject: RE: sendmail help > On Sun, 2003-05-25 at 23:15, Cowles, Steve wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Myriam Abramson > > > Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2003 10:22 PM > > > Subject: Re: sendmail help > > > > > > > > > > > > > > /etc/sysconfig/sendmail shows > > > > > DAEMON=yes > > > > > QUEUE=1h > > > > > > > > changing to QUEUE=10m and restarting sendmail seems to have fixed it. > > > The queue is processed almost instantly now, faster than 10 minutes, > > > so I'm not sure what those parameters really mean. Where do we find > > > documentation for those kind of things that are not standard unix? > > > > I don't know if redhat documents its init scripts, but the files stored in > > /etc/sysconfig are sourced by the various redhat init scripts > > (/etc/init.d/*). With regards to your post, the queue=1h would be expanded > > to "sendmail -q1h" within the init script on sendmail startup. > > > > As to why your queue is not being processed per the specified interval is > > confusing. I have been using sendmail for years and have never had this type > > of problem. I guess you could always increase the debug level of sendmail to > > see if you can spot what is happening. > > > > Steve Cowles > > > > I think you have to uncomment: > > dnl define(`confTO_QUEUEWARN', `4h')dnl > > in /etc/mail/sendmail.mc first then run make -C /etc/mail before the > interval specified would work. What is not clear is if the specified > interval in sendmail.mc or the one in /etc/sysconfig/sendmail takes > precedence. > > Scott > > > -- > Shrike-list mailing list > Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list >
