email server question

[Federico Voges]

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Hi,

Then you should add the FEATURE(accept_unresolvable_domains) line and
run mta-switch newconfig.

I'm not using this anymore (I have DSL now), but I used this config for
a long time when I had dialup access.


On Wed, 26 Jun 2002 21:57:14 -0400, Brian Witowski wrote:

>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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