* Simone Felici <s.fel...@mclink.eu>:
> 
> Hello to all!
> 
> I've a little issue with some queued mails. On a server a script is
> sending mails using perl and the '/bin/mail' command. This night I've
> registered a network outage and some mails are not sent.
> Of course the daemon running is postfix.
> After some search I've noticed the mails are in this path:
> '/var/spool/clientmqueue'. AFAYK postfix wont care about
> '/var/spool/clientmqueue' but I cannot understood why the mails are
> delivered there. Has it to do with the '/bin/mail' command?
> Googling I've found referrs to  /etc/sysconfig/sendmail which contains:
> DAEMON=yes
> QUEUE=1h

That's sendmail, not postfix.

> I know this settings shoud be referred to sendmail and shouldn't have nothing 
> to do with this issue.
> BTW I'm asking here infos on how manage correctly these mails to
> postfix. I'm not 100% sure the problem is on /bin/mail, or if postfix
> simply could be configured to look on this queue too.

Maybe you have postfix and sendmail installed side by side and
/bin/mail is using the sendmail's sendmail command

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