On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 08:57, guenther wrote: > cheers(); > > > Well, in theory, sendmail should keep the outgoing message in the > > spool queue until it can deliver the mail. Eventually, it will send > > you back an email telling you that it's having trouble, and will keep > > trying for x days (usually 5). After that, it will just delete the > > email. I think the default ~5 hours (ie, after 5 hours of unsuccessful > > attempts it will advise you it's having trouble) > > Yep, you are right. But as John said, the mails are not sent at all, it > smells like a problem. > > The mail has to be sent or a warning has to be returned, if sendmail is > configured correct and the mail got its way to sendmail. :-/
If its not sent then it's a problem with sendmail configuration, although if sendmail normally works it doesn't seem very likely, as sendmail is hardened to handle this kind of case. I use a localhost smtp server, and i quite like this behaviour. It goes into a queue, and let software thats designed to work like that handle it. When my link goes back up, postfix just quietly sends the mail on without a hassle. _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
