[Mailman-Users] How to kill the evil that is sendmail

[Jim Popovitch]

Hi Angel,

What you need to do is configure sendmail to not be persistent with flaky
mail servers (this assumes it is not your mail server that is flaky).  I do
this on my lists because I don't want every thing backing up when someone's
home based linux mailserver is down while they are fsking with it.  Besides,
if they really want the missed email, they can go look in the archives.
Here are my relevant sendmail.cf settings that pertain to this, basically
they cause sendmail to not waste much time:

# timeouts (many of these)
O Timeout.initial=1m
O Timeout.connect=0
O Timeout.iconnect=30s
O Timeout.helo=2m
O Timeout.rcpt=2m
O Timeout.ident=0
O Timeout.queuereturn=1h
O Timeout.queuewarn=4h

-Jim P.

>  -----Original Message-----
> From: 	mailman-users-admin at python.org
[mailto:mailman-users-admin at python.org]
> Sent:	Wednesday, September 25, 2002 6:39 AM
> To:	Mailman
> Subject:	[Mailman-Users] How to kill the evil that is sendmail
>
> Yes you guessed it, sendmail is pissing me off!! What I would like to do,
is to get rid of all the email that sendmail is STILL strying to send. You
know when it tries to deliver mail for up to five days or whatever. I
stopped short of uninstalling it, and re-installing it in case it picks up
where it left off. I look in the mail queue, and I can't see any messages,
but I look in the logs, and it's trying addresses every hour or so. It's
making me wonder if, mailman is the culprit. Because I can't see what
mailman is about to do, I can only see the end results. It's not slowing
down my machine, or anything like that, it's just plain ANNOYING. Any ideas
anyone?
>
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