[ale] MX Record Questions?
Ryan Neily
ryan at neily.net
Fri Aug 9 12:45:26 EDT 2002
Thanks, this seems to of worked. Thanks again...
On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, Joe Steele wrote:
> The solution depends on which MTA is used, but everything indicates
> you are using sendmail. In your sendmail.cf file, you will find
> timeout options such as these:
>
> O Timeout.queuereturn=5d
> #O Timeout.queuereturn.normal=5d
> #O Timeout.queuereturn.urgent=2d
> #O Timeout.queuereturn.non-urgent=7d
> O Timeout.queuewarn=4h
> #O Timeout.queuewarn.normal=4h
> #O Timeout.queuewarn.urgent=1h
> #O Timeout.queuewarn.non-urgent=12h
>
> You can change Timeout.queuewarn to a longer interval. Note that if
> not specified, the default interval is 4 hours.
>
> If you are using an m4 configuration file, then you would need to add
> something like this to the mc file:
>
> define(`confTO_QUEUEWARN', 4h)
>
> --Joe
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ryan Neily [SMTP:ryan at neily.net]
> Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2002 8:03 PM
> To: Joe Steele
> Cc: ale at ale.org
> Subject: RE: [ale] MX Record Questions?
>
>
> After final inspection, you are right, it's comnig from my local server.
> (makes sense!)
>
> Anyone know how to turn this off?
>
> On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, Joe Steele wrote:
>
> > Sounds to me like it would be your server which is generating the
> > warnings. After all, your server is the only one which could possibly
> > know that the mail has sat around for 4 hours without being delivered
> > to the final recipient.
> >
> > --Joe
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ryan Neily [SMTP:ryan at neily.net]
> > Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2002 1:41 PM
> > To: ale at ale.org
> > Subject: [ale] MX Record Questions?
> >
> >
> > I have a question about backup MX records for e-mail. I have a server that
> > is a backup MX for another domain, and it is correctly receiving e-mail
> > for that domain, and storing it in the /var/spool/mqueue directoy untill
> > the primary MX comes back up. What I am confused about is that when people
> > e-mail someone at the domain while the primary MX is down, they get an
> > return e-mail from their sendmail server wth a suject "Warning: could not
> > send message for past 4 hours".
> >
> > Since the e-mail has been received (by the backup MX at least) is there
> > any way to make it so that the e-mailing users sendmail server does not
> > send this e-mail out? It's confusing for Joe Schmoe user to get these
> > e-mails, and it seems a little redundant.
> >
> > Thanks in advance...
> >
> >
>
>
--
Ryan Neily
ryan at neily.net
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