SMTP Not Working

[Brian Morrison]

On Fri, 24 Sep 1999 11:28:06 -0700, Paul Dhuse wrote:

>I used IBM sendmail on a LAN at work (Lockheed - big place) for quite a
>while, because I didn't want to have to change to Microsoft Exchange.
>
>It worked just fine, but that had the machine on the network all the
>time.  How it might work with dial up, I couldn't say.
>

What I do is to run it minimised in daemon mode using the -bd option,
but not supplying a -q parameter so it doesn't try to run the queue at
regular intervals (unless you like big log files that is). Then after
connection, my dial up scripts call sendmail -q to run the queue
immediately and send out everything in the queue.

Works just fine, it's been going like this for over five years now.


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Brian Morrison                                  bdm@fenrir.demon.co.uk

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