Sendmail -q15m unchangeable?

[Ryan Weaver]

        Actually... AFAIK even at -q1m it wouldn't 'hammer'
undeliverables... Because of MinQueueAge in sendmail.cf, -q1m would only
affect new messages... Retries would wait until after MinQueueAge to try
again...

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> [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Julian Field
> Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 3:43 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Sendmail -q15m unchangeable?
>
>
> I hate to have to ask this, but why do you think you need
> -q5m or -q2m?
> If the first delivery attempt fails, do you really want to be
> hammering
> your system by attempting delivery every 2 minutes?
> This is mostly a rhetorical question, but do check you are
> doing this for a
> good reason. It is not "normally" needed in my experience, and doesn't
> actually help much (other than to burn CPU cycles).
>
> At 19:17 29/09/2003, you wrote:
> >Hi!
> >
> > > /etc/sysconfig/sendmail
> >
> >Close :)
> >
> > > /usr/sbin/sendmail -q15m
> >
> >I would edit /etc/sysconfig/MailScanner
> >
> >#
> ># Sendmail Settings
> >#
> >SENDMAIL=/usr/sbin/sendmail
> >QUEUETIME=5m
> >INQDIR=/var/spool/mqueue.in
> >INPID=/var/run/sendmail.in.pid
> >OUTPID=/var/run/sendmail.out.pid
> >
> >Bye,
> >Raymond
>
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