On Wed, 05 Feb 2003, Andrew Pollock wrote: > Hi, > > Is it just me and my Sendmail (the one in stable), or does it seem to > cache rather aggressively the host status of other mail relays? > > We've got an intermediate SMTP relay that relays down to clients, and a > client's SMTP server blew up and was repaired at 2pm, and at 5pm, our > Sendmail was still considering it to be down, purely because of what was > in the HostStatusDirectory. > > I notice that the Sendmail default is to have this switched off, however > the Debian default is to turn it on. Would the Sendmail maintainer like to > comment on the efficacy of this option, and indeed the rationale behind > enabling at the default?
Hi, I had difficulties with this option too and because of the fact that I do not need I disabled it. Oliver -- ... don't touch the bang bang fruit http://www.wreckingpit.com http://www07.u-page.so-net.ne.jp/qg7/snatch/cyberlabel/home.html http://home.tiscali.de/oliverfuchs/debian/muttrc.html http://home.tiscali.de/oliverfuchs/debian/procmailrc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]