"John P. Looney" wrote:
>
> On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 12:26:10PM +0200, Hans Sandsdalen mentioned:
> > Hi
> >
> > People here are making complaints about the fact that mails are queued
> > for A LONG TIME before they get a failure notice. Is this configurable?
>
> "man qmail-control" will list all the files that you may need to
> configure qmail - they live in /var/qmail/control on my machine.
>
> One of them, "queuelifetime" is set to 604800 seconds, by default. You
> could make that lower. However, unlike other MTAs, qmail doesn't send the
> person who has sent a "This mail is being queued" message if there is a
> problem. The "queuelifetime" is how long it will sit on a letter, before
> returning it back as "undeliverable".
Thank you. I should have checked there by myself. I set it to a couple
of
days (216000), instead of one week (604800).
>
> Kate
>
> --
> "The fool must be beaten with a stick, for an intelligent person
> the merest hint is sufficient" -- Zen Master Greg
--
/hans
