On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 11:29:38AM -0500, Larry Rosenman wrote:
> sendmail can be configured in the sendmail.cf to use mode=queueonly.
>
> (from man sendmail:
>
> DeliveryMode=x
> Set the delivery mode to x. Delivery modes are
> i
> interactive (synchronous) delivery
> b
> background (asynchronous) delivery
> q
> queue only; that is, actual delivery is done the next time
> the queue is run
> d
> deferred; the same as q except that database lookups
> (notably DNS and NIS lookups) are avoided
My sendmail.cf is:
O DeliveryMode=background
and no dialup is initiated if the PC is offline when mail is sent. If
the PC is online, the mail is sent immediately.
-rex
