Andy Swallow wrote:
I'm sure this isn't an original question, but never mind...
Regarding the exim config (using woody, stable):
Ok, so if I'm offline and I send an email, it gets queued and waits
patiently until I connect. Various addresses are re-written so that it
can send properly. But then if it's on the queue for a long time (which
often happens), exim sends a reminder email to the sender. Exactly which
message headers need to be re-written so that a) there is no problem
sending the message, but b) these reminder messages get sent to the
localhost address and not the external address?
what I do on my laptop is change the retry settings so that exim only
tries to redeliver once an hour if not connected. I *think* what you
want to do is set the from: address to be [EMAIL PROTECTED], and
your reply-to: to be [EMAIL PROTECTED], then make sure that
yourlaptop.yourdomain is in local_domains.
Also, the exim daemon usually pauses for about 5-10 seconds, for example
when I type 'mailq'. Is this something to do with the /etc/hosts file or
not? It's not a major problem of course, but any comments would be welcome.
Well, for this case, `man exim` says:
If Exim is called under the name mailq, it behaves as if the
option -bp were present before any other options. This is for
compatibility with some systems that contain a command of that
name in one of the standard libraries, symbolically linked to
/usr/lib/sendmail.
...and then...
-bp List the contents of the mail queue on the current
output. If the -bp option is followed by a list of
message ids, then just those messages are listed.
By default this option may only be used by an admin
user. The queue_list_requires_admin option can be
set false to allow any user to see the queue.
Each message on the queue is displayed as in the
following example:
25m 2.9K 0t5C6f-0000c8-00 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
land.fict.book>
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<other addresses>
The first line contains the amount of time the mes
sage has been on the queue (in this case 25 min
utes), the size of the message (2.9K), the unique
identifier for the message, and the message sender,
as contained in the envelope. If the message is a
delivery error message, the sender address is
empty, and appears as <>. If the message is frozen
(attempts to deliver it are suspended) then the
text '*** frozen ***' is displayed at the end of
this line.
The recipients of the message (taken from the enve
lope, not the headers) are displayed on subsequent
lines. Those addresses to which the message has
already been delivered are marked with the letter
D. If an original address gets expanded into sev
eral addresses via an alias or forward file, the
original is displayed with a 'D' only when deliver
ies for all of its child addresses are completed.
I'd suspect that if you had a large mail queue, that it'd have to scan
the whole thing before reporting what's on it.
hope this was helpful,
cheers
glen
--
Glen Mehn [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"if you ever swallow the universe, remember to spit the dragon
back out.xx. --swan
