<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">You're right Jim. It is a relay server for our internal server. I would like it to queue the mail while the internal servers are down as you described. What settings should I check to determine the duration of time mail will be queued before it is bounced?<br>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Thanks,<br>
Eric<br>
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<br><font size=2 face="Courier New">On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 10:50, Eric Newsom wrote:<br>
> We are relocating our computer room tomorrow to another facility across<br>
> town. During the move, I want to hold all mail at the MailScanner gateway<br>
> without attempting delivery or bouncing the inbound email back to the<br>
> senders as our company cannot afford to miss any email.<br>
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> I tried adding:<br>
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> define(`confDELIVERY_MODE', `queueonly')<br>
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> to m4 config and running it to update the sendmail.cf, but mail is<br>
> delivered anyway.<br>
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> Will I need to modify the sendmail/mailscanner startup scripts in init.d?<br>
> As a fairly new Linux guy, I'd really hate to screw-up those files. Any<br>
> help given to me will be greatly appreciated!<br>
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It sounds like your MailScanner system may be a relay for mail from<br>
outside to internal mail servers. If that's the case, just shut down the<br>
inside servers that you will be moving. Sendmail will happily queue up<br>
the outgoing mail and when the servers come back on line it will deliver<br>
everything.<br>
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The instructions said to use Windows 98 or better, so I installed<br>
RedHat.<br>
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