Re: Sendmail Delivery Options

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From: Simon Child
Date: Sun, 01 Aug 1999 00:00

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On Sun, 1 Aug 1999 16:27:21 +0100, Andrew Taylor <news@hot-shot.demon.co.uk> 
wrote:

>I have a 99% working sendmail config on a Mandrake 6 box. What makes
>Sendmail queue it's external mail until my ppp connection is up but deliver
>internal mail imediatley?

In /etc/sendmail.cf have this line:

# default delivery mode
O DeliveryMode=background

and make a file /etc/service.switch containing the lines:

hosts	files dns
aliases files


This works on RedHat 5.2 with sendmail upgraded to 8.9.1 which will I
think be pretty similar to what you're using.

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