Sendmail -q15m unchangeable?

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Mon Sep 29 21:45:57 IST 2003


There is virtually no reason whatsoever for using anything other than
         Delivery Method = batch
in MailScanner version 4.

The only reason I haven't removed it completely is that I use it quite a
bit for testing.

At 20:00 29/09/2003, you wrote:
>         I kept the configuration from the previous setup and they had it
>setup to be queued. I could change it to batch or something else to see if
>that shuts them up. Thanks for the advice, I will look into doing it.
>
>         Richard
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Kevin Spicer [mailto:kevins at BMRB.CO.UK]
>Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 2:32 PM
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: Re: Sendmail -q15m unchangeable?
>
>
>On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 19:07, Richard Peiper wrote:
>
> >I am getting some serious heat
> >from upper management on "Email being slow".
>
>The queue interval shouldn't make much difference to most email (as it
>will be sent directly rather than queued, unless the sending fails).
>Have you changed 'Delivery Mode' in MailScanner.conf (if you have you
>probably shouldn't have).  You might also like to take a look in your
>maillog to see if there are any problems.  If the problem is lots in the
>queue then sendmail -bp | more may also give some clues
>
>
>
>
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