Moving internal SMART_HOST; MailScanner is our gateway

[Eric Newsom]

You're right Jim.  It is a relay server for our internal server.  I would
like it to queue the mail while the internal servers are down as you
described. What settings should I check to determine the duration of time
mail will be queued before it is bounced?

Thanks,
Eric





Jim Levie <jim at ENTROPHY-FREE.NET>
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12/20/2002 10:22 AM
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On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 10:50, Eric Newsom wrote:
> We are relocating our computer room tomorrow to another facility across
> town.  During the move, I want to hold all mail at the MailScanner
gateway
> without attempting delivery or bouncing the inbound email back to the
> senders as our company cannot afford to miss any email.
>
> I tried adding:
>
> define(`confDELIVERY_MODE', `queueonly')
>
> to m4 config and running it to update the sendmail.cf, but mail is
> delivered anyway.
>
> Will I need to modify the sendmail/mailscanner startup scripts in
init.d?
> As a fairly new Linux guy, I'd really hate to screw-up those files.  Any
> help given to me will be greatly appreciated!
>
It sounds like your MailScanner system may be a relay for mail from
outside to internal mail servers. If that's the case, just shut down the
inside servers that you will be moving. Sendmail will happily queue up
the outgoing mail and when the servers come back on line it will deliver
everything.
--
The instructions said to use Windows 98 or better, so I installed
RedHat.


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