SOLVED: RE: Some mail (up to 7 days old) is stuck in/var/spool/mqueue

[DAve]

Chris W. Parker wrote:
> How does this help me?
> 
> 	-----Original Message-----
> 	From: Nathan Olson [mailto:naolson at gmail.com] 
> 	Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 11:52 AM
> 	To: MailScanner discussion
> 	Subject: Re: SOLVED: RE: Some mail (up to 7 days old) is stuck
> in/var/spool/mqueue
> 	
> 	
> 	Don't edit sendmail.cf directly.  Edit sendmail.mc.
> 	
> 	Nate

Old admins edit the *.cf file, cause we don't know any better.

It is smarter to edit the *.mc and rebuild the *.cf. If you edit the 
*.mc file first, M4 has a chance to warn you about typos and other 
errors before you try to convince Sendmail to use the config file.

I've seen lots of websites attempting to "help" new users by giving 
edits to the *.cf file. But that teaches them nothing about how Sendmail 
works, and less than nothing about how to fix it when your Sendmail 
borks because you made edits from five different websites.

That's experience speaking ;^)

DAve

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