On Sat, 25 Feb 1995, *Hobbit* wrote: > I messed with this a little too -- it appears that you have to get a message > queued for retry later. Lots of sites run with Odbackground in their .cf > files and Sendmail will try to fire off a delivery right then and there, > using the "ctladdr" it got from the current SMTP session. If you can get a > message to queue, though, possibly by CCing to a site that's down, and jam > the extra "Croot" or "Cdaemon" or whatever line into the queue file, Sendmail > will read and believe this during the next queue run, and turn on stuff like > file and program delivery. Euugh. > This does indeed work quite fine -- _EXCEPT_ -- you need to be root to modify the qf* files and place them back into the /var/spool/mqueue directory. This is even true for most handicapped UNIX OS's.... Erik ____ _____ _______ __ Erik Lindquist / _ | / ___/ / _____/ / / Systems Administrator / /_| | / /__ / / / / AECL Whiteshell Laboratories / __ | / ___/ / / / / VOICE: (204) 753-2311x3145 / / | | / /____ / /_____ / /_____ FAX: (204) 753-2455 /_/ |_| /______/ /_______/ /________/ E-mail: lindquie@wu1.wl.aecl.ca