Re: deferral - how long ?

1999-11-22 Thread Bill Parker
At 05:50 PM 11/22/99 +, you wrote: >On Mon, Nov 22, 1999 at 04:48:59PM +, John P. Looney wrote: >> How long will an undeliverable mail be deferred, before it's returned to >> it's sender ? I've seen a few "Delivery deferred" mails in my queue for >> over a week now... > >604800 seconds (a

Re: deferral - how long ?

1999-11-22 Thread James Raftery
On Mon, Nov 22, 1999 at 04:48:59PM +, John P. Looney wrote: > How long will an undeliverable mail be deferred, before it's returned to > it's sender ? I've seen a few "Delivery deferred" mails in my queue for > over a week now... 604800 seconds (a week) or the number of seconds in control/q

Re: deferral - how long ?

1999-11-22 Thread John P. Looney
On Mon, Nov 22, 1999 at 04:48:59PM +, John P. Looney mentioned: > (outbound mail is fine, and breaks if I don't have that line in, as > internal hostnames aren't externally resolvable). Sorted this problem. Turns out I was reporting the wrong domainname in the workstations /etc/sendmail.cf

deferral - how long ?

1999-11-22 Thread John P. Looney
How long will an undeliverable mail be deferred, before it's returned to it's sender ? I've seen a few "Delivery deferred" mails in my queue for over a week now... Also, if I have my "offical domain name" set to "online.ie" (which isn't a host, just has an MX record), in an /etc/sendmail.cf (th