[H-GEN] Sendmail timeout

[Jay]

On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 09:07, 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?

Options in /etc/mail/sendmail.cf will do that. Your sendmail.cf file might 
live some place else. Below are some default settings.

The 'normal, urgent, non-urgent' options are commented out by default. They 
are useful if one wants to provide different responses according to the 
e-mail priority for delivery.

O Timeout.queuereturn=5d
#O Timeout.queuereturn.normal=5d
#O Timeout.queuereturn.urgent=2d
#O Timeout.queuereturn.non-urgent=7d

This set is more likely the one you are looking for.

O Timeout.queuewarn=4h 
#O Timeout.queuewarn.normal=4h
#O Timeout.queuewarn.urgent=1h
#O Timeout.queuewarn.non-urgent=12h

Cheers

Johannes