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Article #144Re: How do you get server sendmail to forward queued items AFTER PPP attach
From: Michael Doyle
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 00:00
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 00:00
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Stephen Kennedy <steve@kalika.demon.co.uk> wrote: > >Erm, are you simply saying that you want sendmail to attempt to empty its >queue? If so: > >sendmail -qv > I think the problem with the above is that if you have some hosts that are not online (as we do with our outworkers) then the sendmail -q hangs for a long long time, and the mail may not be delivered to the person at the end of the queue before they logoff. It may be simpler for us to use POP for now, but quite ofetn, the home workers are full subdomains (UNIX boxes) which have SMTP mail rather than POP clients. -- Michael Doyle Ubiquity Software Limited Technical Director Imperial House, Imperial Way Tel: +44 1633 811806 Celtic Lakes, Newport Fax: +44 1633 811807 NP1 9UH, UK
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