[H-GEN] Sendmail timeout
Sarah Walters
s.walters at its.uq.edu.au
Thu Mar 25 17:15:51 EST 2004
Tony Melia wrote:
> How do I change the timeout in sendmail before it stops trying to
> deliver mails and give me a postmaster 'couldn't deliver for past 4
> hours' type of message?
I just googled for "timeout site:sendmail.org" to get this:
http://www.sendmail.org/m4/tweaking_config.html
You want confTO_QUEUEWARN, which defaults to 4h.
Modify these in your m4 file by the following:
define(`confTO_QUEUEWARN', `10h')
Make sure you get the quoting correct.
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Sarah Walters
Systems Programmer, Software Infrastructure
Information Technology Services
The University of Queensland, Australia
Phone: (07) 33654359
Email: s.walters at its.uq.edu.au
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