[Techtalk] sendmail on NetBSD

[Brenda Bell]

Quoting "Rudy L. Zijlstra" <rudy at edsons.demon.nl>:

> Not until your dsl connection is back, no. Also, such  command should 
> aready be active. During startup a command like:
> sendmail -bd -q15m
> 
> or for newer releases:
> 
>  sendmail_start() {
>   if [ -x /usr/sbin/sendmail ]; then
>     echo "Starting sendmail MTA daemon:  /usr/sbin/sendmail -L sm-mta 
> -bd -q15m"
>     /usr/sbin/sendmail -L sm-mta -bd -q15m
>     echo "Starting sendmail MSP queue runner:  /usr/sbin/sendmail -L 
> sm-msp-queue -Ac -q15m"
>     /usr/sbin/sendmail -L sm-msp-queue -Ac -q15m
>   fi
> 
> The second incarnation is the sendmail queue daemon., which takes care 
> of handling queued messages. In this case every 15 minutes.
> 
> Without you dsl connection, your DNS does not work, thus sendmail cannot
> deliver. Sendmail is in that aspect totally dependent on DNS.

That part's clear.  The DSL is down for an hour or two in the middle of the
night about once a month.  My Net BSD firewall gets rebooted about once
every six months (if that).

Sounds like I can simply set up a cron job to restart sendmail to
periodically flush the queue.

Thanks.

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Rudy
> 
> 


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Brenda
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