Hi guys, umm, seems fairly trivial, but nobody answered.. :-(
Can someone point me to any FM to RT or some such?
(other than "man sendmail", where I tried looking yet lack the time to read
top to bottom...)
Repost:
Hi all
Two mail-related questions:
1. When pine is delivering an outgoing mail for a non-root user, it
concludes with "Mail not sent. Sending error: 451 4.0.0 collect: Cannot
write ./dfg5HA"
Precisely *where* is it trying to write this temp file during the sending
process? All the (relevant) user's folders are 100% write-permitted by this
user, and so is /var/spool/mqueue. Machine runs sendmail.
2. My Sendmail SMTP server doesn't spool.
Instead, it tries to MX-lookup&send simultaneously as it is being asked to
relay by MS Outlook Express.
Example of when this was a bad thing:
The Technion was inaccessible from the IIX and one of my recepients was on
the t2.
This is the flow of events:
1. OE client contacts Sendmail server, and gets as far as the "rcpt:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]" line.
2. Sendmail starts looking up MX record for the t2.tech.. domain.
Meanwhile, it stops reacting.
3. Technion's DNS is inaccessible at the time, so sendmail times out
~2 minutes later.
4. Long before the sendmail times out, the OE times out. (I know this
timeout can be manipulated in OE)
How can I change this behaviour so sendmail accepts the mail for delivery
no-matter-what, and bounce it back if it don't go through in, say, 24
hours?
Thanks!
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