By default sendmail should try to redeliver every 4 hours for up to 5 days... After that it should start sending back undeliverable messages to the sender... This of course is configurable but is pretty much recommended defaults... I've not found it to be a problem for any of the many sendmail servers I admin.
As for space you just need to make sure that the filesystem with
the spool directory (usually /var/spool/mail by default) has plenty of
available space as if it gets too full sendmail will stop accepting
email completely. I tend to make sure the mail spool directory and my
system logs are on seperate partitions for this reason.
Regards,
Jeremy
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 01:22:42PM -0500, Vivek Kumar wrote:
> Hi ,
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> All the incoming mails comes to Debian Linux box and get s forwarded to
> Exchange server for distribution. IF the MS exchange server is down for
> few hours then what happens to the mail ?? If Linux box keeps it then
> how long it can keep the mails ?? Will there be any disk space issue for
> the incoming mails ??
> What should I do in such case. Any help is appreciated.
>
> Thanks
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