How to configure MailScanner with sendmail's expensive=true option?

[Julian Field]

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At 14:10 05/10/2004, you wrote:
>Hi
>
>I use a few mail servers with MailScanner & Sendmail (RH9) that hook up to the
>net using a ppp dial up connection every 30 minutes.
>
>I relay the messages to a Smart Host which accepts mail only if it is pop
>authenticated... so I run a script which does
>1. fetchmail to authenticate my dynamic IP address on the smart host
>2. trigger sendmai -q to relay mail to the smart host.
>
>Sendmail is configured with Expensive=True, but MailScanner ignores this
>feature and tries to deliver the moment it gets a chance to send out mail.
>
>I read this from the archives but was not sure if this is the solution to my
>problem.
>
>http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0209&L=mailscanner&P=R37713&I=-1
>
>Can anyone help?

Set "Delivery Method = queue" in MailScanner.conf and it won't make the
initial delivery attempt, but leave your system to deliver at a time of its
own choosing.
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