[CLUE-Tech] Store and forward

Angelo Bertolli angelo at freeshell.org
Tue Jul 27 13:01:30 MDT 2004


>sendmail does store-and-forward by default when it is in the
>queue mode.  (O DeliveryMode=)
>
>The choices for delivery mode include interactive, background,
>and queue.  The latter two are store-and-forward - the last
>one requires that something happen to cause the queue to run
>(like a cron job that makes sendmail -q run), or else -bd -q5m 
>on the command line, to cause it to run the queue every 5 
>minutes when running as a daemon.  (You can set whatever queue 
>interval you want of course.)
>  
>

I guess I really want to use background.  My problem is, if mail comes 
in for domain.com and there is no "user" set up for that domain (even 
though I'm accepting it in local-host-names), aren't they going to get a 
bounce back saying the mailbox does not exist?

Angelo




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