Re: [Evolution] Outbox problem

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 08:57, guenther wrote:
> cheers();
>
> > Well, in theory, sendmail should keep the outgoing message in the
> > spool queue until it can deliver the mail. Eventually, it will send
> > you back an email telling you that it's having trouble, and will keep
> > trying for x days (usually 5). After that, it will just delete the
> > email. I think the default ~5 hours (ie, after 5 hours of unsuccessful
> > attempts it will advise you it's having trouble)
>
> Yep, you are right. But as John said, the mails are not sent at all, it
> smells like a problem.
>
> The mail has to be sent or a warning has to be returned, if sendmail is
> configured correct and the mail got its way to sendmail. :-/

If its not sent then it's a problem with sendmail configuration,
although if sendmail normally works it doesn't seem very likely, as
sendmail is hardened to handle this kind of case.

I use a localhost smtp server, and i quite like this behaviour.  It goes
into a queue, and let software thats designed to work like that handle
it.  When my link goes back up, postfix just quietly sends the mail on
without a hassle.