On Wed, 23 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On my system, I have sendmail and fetchmail installed. procmail package is > installed but > I am not sure that it run (I can't see procmail when I do a ps -a). > > If I am offline and I send mail, they are save in /var/save/mqueue. > > What soft have to send them when I am on-line ? (procmail ?) How does it know > if it can send > the messages ? Can I lost the message if I disconnect while this mysterious > software is > sending the messages ?
For me, when messages are on queue and I go online, mail are delivered after some seconds ... probably it depends from a timeout of sendmail (i don't know). I think that if you execute "runq" mail will be sent quickly. > As you can see, I am far away from being a linux guru !!! So, any help would > be appreciated. So do I ! ;) Best regards and a Mery Christmas, Nuno Carvalho ?????????????????????????????? Nuno Emanuel F. Carvalho Dep. Informatics Engineering University of Coimbra PGP key available at finger ??????????????????????????????