Retry delays

[Devon Harding]

On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 7:45 PM, Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com> wrote:

> on 12-1-2008 12:30 PM Devon Harding spake the following:
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 2:27 PM, Adam Gross <agross at gcpsite.com
> > <mailto:agross at gcpsite.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     What has worked for me is stopping MailScanner (killall -9
> >     MailScanner) and leaving the MTA running.  When I'm done with the
> >     mailbox server I run check_mailscanner to start it back up and it
> >     starts chugging away.
> >
> >
> >
> > Yea...but I didn't want to stop MS from receiving mail.  just not
> > forward to my Exchange server till it was ready.  Were are the delay
> > settings in send mail?  How can I increase them?
> >
> > -Devon
> >
> Sendmail defaults to 4 days. Is that long enough?
> If not, look in sendmail.mc for
> define(`confTO_QUEUERETURN', `4d')dnl
> and change the 4d to whatever you need.
> Then recompile to your sendmail.cf
>
> --
> MailScanner is like deodorant...
> You hope everybody uses it, and
> you notice quickly if they don't!!!!
>

Just what I was looking for!  Anyway to disable the warnings that get sent
to the sender when the server is not available?  I think it sends after like
two days.

-Devon
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