> Let me re-phrase the question a little... > > I don't mind about how often sendmail retries to flush the queue. That doesn't > matter. And the queue is never particularly big anyway. But what does often > happen is that I send an email, while offline, and forget all about actually > dialing up to send it fully. So it waits in the queue. > > If you type 'mailq' then each message in the queue is listed in the form, > > message id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > recipient-list > > If there is any problem with the message, then exim sends a warning message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] I would like to keep [EMAIL PROTECTED] as "[EMAIL > PROTECTED]", so > that a warning message (for instance when the message has been on the queue > far too long) is sent to me directly. However, if [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a local > address, this causes problems when exim tries to send the message into the big > wide world, since [EMAIL PROTECTED] is an unrouteable address.
I don't know for sure, but maybe it would be enough if you simply could configure exim not to deliver error messages for at lest 1 or 2 days (instead of the default 4 hours, I think)... Thtat youd eventually give you enough time to sedn the mail when you had eventually change to get connected.. I personally would like to do that: a) Configure exim to retry every 15 min "forever" (at least a couple of days) b) Disable warning/error messages, or at least only report after 2 days. The reasoning is that I eventually will get connected (I never stay more than 2-3 days disconnected), and when I connect I'll connect for at least 15 minutes..
