email server question

[Brian Witowski]

Federico,
Thanks!
Your solution seemed to work.  Except it will time out when the destination
is a domain that is not cached on the mail server.  It seems to want to
resolve the domain before it will accept the outgoing email.  Any ideas on
that?

Thanks again,
Brian

> >My problem is I am using a dial-up account and pppd on the
> server.  When I
> >try to do a send/receive on a workstation, it fails if the server is not
> >connected.  My question: Is there a way to cache the outgoing mail on the
> >server instead of the workstation?  And have the server send it
> when there
> >is a connection?
> >
>
> Yes, you can.
>
> If you have a stock sendmail (and sendmail-cf installed), you have to
> add this to /usr/share/sendmail/cf/cf/generic-openlinux.mc:
>
> define(`confDELIVERY_MODE', `deferred')
>
> and possibly
>
> FEATURE(accept_unresolvable_domains)
>
> Then exec:
>
> mta-switch newconfig
>
> This will rebuild /etc/mail/sendmail.cf. Restart sendmail and you're
> ready.
>
> It's a good idea to exec sendmail -q upon connection (it will process
> the mail queue).
>
> PS: backup /etc/mail/sendmail.cf before doing mta-switch newconfig (in
> case something fails).
>
>
> Federico Voges
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>
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