[CentOS] Re: question on sending mail with 5.2

Jerry Geis geisj at pagestation.com
Sat Sep 13 02:25:45 UTC 2008


Jerry Geis wrote:
> I made a little file with a From:, To: and body.
> I execute the command cat file.txt | sendmail -t -O MinQueueAge=1m
>
> thinking that the message would try every minute to send instead of 
> the default 30m. (if the initial attempt failed of course).
>
> This doesnt seem to have any effect?
>
> In the event I have an important email and I want it try perhaps every 
> minute (1minute)
> to send the email how do I accomplish this from the sendmail command 
> line?
>
> Thanks,
>
> jerry
>
I had to change /etc/sysconfig/sendmail
QUEUE=1m
and restart sendmail

it did not seem to have effect on an individual message from the command 
above.

Thanks for the info about greylisting.

Jerry



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