[csw-maintainers] Sendmail question

Jeffery Small jeff at cjsa.com
Mon May 9 19:50:37 CEST 2011


In local.csw.maint you write:

>$1 is $CLIENTQUEUEINTERVAL which is sourced from $DEFAULT_FILE which is
>/opt/csw/etc/default/sendmail

>Try:
>CLIENTQUEUEINTERVAL=10m
>in /opt/csw/etc/default/sendmail (untested suggestion).

>Alex was an early adopter of the Service Management Facility with CSW so
>his methods predate current ideas.

>I think 15m is a good interval for retries - don't hammer the receiver if
>it's not ready.

>Your underlying problem is that some local email is being queue.  I use
>the default (SUNW) sendmail client to pass to my exim server.  Sendmail
>client only queues when the receiver is not ready.  If it's queuing check
>the receiver.

James:

Thanks for the feedback.  I'll look into things further and see if I
can determine why the mail is being queued.  Everything mail related is
happening on a single machine, so this system should simply be putting
these queued messages in the proper mailboxes in /var/mail.  This is only
happening with certain mail, and I cannot see a predictable pattern.  I'll
examine the logs and possible step up the debugging level to see what may
be happening.

Regards,
-- 
Jeff

C. Jeffery Small           CJSA LLC                       206-232-3338
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