Re: Telnet port 2

From: Barry Finkel (b19141_at_ACHILLES.CTD.ANL.GOV)
Date: 12/11/03

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To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU

    >The problem here is that there will be no retries for failures and failed
    >mail will stay queued.
    >
    >A better solution is to run sendmail without the "-bd" as such:
    >
    >/usr/sbin/sendmail -q1m
    >
    >This way it works the queues but does not accept connections on port 25.
    >
    >This assumes you only want to send mail and not receive.

    We run this root cron on our servers that are not mail hosts and as
    such do not have sendmail running:

         0 * * * * /usr/lib/sendmail -q

    This will start sendmail every hour to deliver any outbound mail that
    may be queued from a previous failed attempt.
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    Barry S. Finkel
    Computing and Instrumentation Solutions Division
    Argonne National Laboratory Phone: +1 (630) 252-7277
    9700 South Cass Avenue Facsimile:+1 (630) 252-4601
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    Argonne, IL 60439-4828 IBMMAIL: I1004994

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