Queue Messages

[Mike Kercher]

I'm using 5 outgoing queues and a MailScanner ruleset to sort messages into
different queues based on destination.

Mike


-----Original Message-----
From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf
Of mikea
Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 9:57 AM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: Queue Messages


On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 10:49:34AM -0400, Devon Harding - GTHLA wrote:
> I'm using Sendmail.  Where's the default queue dir?

With sendmail and MailScanner, there will be two.

The defaults appear to be /var/spool/mqueue.in for the inbound mail, and
/var/spool/mqueue for the outbound mail.

MailScanner takes mail from mqueue.in, processes it, and puts it in mqueue.

When the mailservers here go down, which is more frequently than I like (I
don't admin them), mail just stacks up in mqueue until the servers come back
up. IIRC, sendmail sends NDNs after 4 hours, and kills the mail after 5
days, but those are configurable.

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Mike Andrews
mikea at mikea.ath.cx
Tired old sysadmin since 1964