Re: improving pine speed when using remote smtp server

[Pete Templin <templin@bucknell.edu>]

On Tue, 1 Apr 1997, Frank Swasey wrote:

> On Tue, 1 Apr 1997, Douglas L Stewart wrote:
> 
> > What I'd _like_ to do is to set up smail on my laptop where it'll forward
> > the mail to the mailhost.  This isn't really a problem, and there seems to
> > be an option to do this when the smail package isn't configured.
> 
> I don't know if you can do it with SMAIL, but there is a mini-howto on how
> to do this with SENDMAIL -- The title is something about "sendmail" and
> "queueing".  I set it up once long ago and haven't touched it since (so
> I've long since forgotten the name of the howto I used), but it walks you
> through customizing the sendmail.cf file so the mail is queued and then
> only delivered when sendmail "runs the queue".  I set up my system so that
> sendmail does not run the queue when I'm not connected to the Internet.
> When I connect to the Internet, sendmail is stopped and then started with
> the necessary parameters to run the queue (-q10) every 10 minutes.

--for sendmail, not smail--

You can either edit your /etc/init.d/sendmail to read "
        start-stop-daemon --start --verbose --exec /usr/sbin/sendmail --\
            -bd -odq -q1m"

or change your /etc/mail/sendmail.cf entry for:
# default delivery mode
O DeliveryMode=background  <- change this to be "queue"

and/or change your scripts to use "sendmail -odq <recipient>".


Pete

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